Who Wants to Be a President

[Bob Juch]

I guess I'm the only one who watched the debate last night?

I don't have enough time right now, but who were the heroes and villains?

[BackInTex]

I guess I'm the only one who watched the debate last night?

I don't have enough time right now, but who were the heroes and villains?

I didn't watch it. I went and saw Toy Story 4 with my daughter and son-in-law.

I did catch the final segment where they asked each candidate what the biggest threat was. There were the usual "Global Warming"s and at least one "Trump" but what I found interesting in the majority (or what seemed a majority, I didn't actually count) included "China". It wasn't clear if the perceived threat from China was purely economical or a combination of economics and military.

[silverscreenselect]

The overnight ratings for the debate on NBC were very good, equaling the totals for the other three networks combined. Keep in mind that this is summer programming with mostly reality programming, but CBS had the season finale for The Amazing Race, while ABC had Card Sharks and Match Game. Fox had First Responders Live at 9 and local news at 10.

The debate was also covered on MSNBC and Telemundo.

9:00 p.m. ABC – “Card Sharks”: 2.3/ 4 (#3) CBS – “The Amazing Race” (season finale): 2.8/ 5 (#2) NBC – 2020 Democratic Candidates Debate: 7.0/13 (#1) Fox – “First Responders Live”: 1.6/ 3 (#4) CW – “Jane the Virgin”: 0.6/ 1 (#5)

9:30 p.m. ABC – “Card Sharks”: 2.2/ 4 (#3) CBS – “The Amazing Race” (season finale): 2.8/ 5 (#2) NBC – 2020 Democratic Candidates Debate: 7.1/13 (#1) Fox – “First Responders Live”: 1.5/ 3 (#4) CW – “Jane the Virgin”: 0.5/ 1 (#5)

10:00 p.m. ABC – “Match Game”: 2.3/ 4 (#3) CBS – “The Amazing Race” (season finale): 2.5/ 5 (#2) NBC – 2020 Democratic Candidates Debate: 7.0/12 (#1)

10:30 p.m. ABC – “Match Game”: 2.2/ 4 (#3) CBS – “The Amazing Race” (season finale): 2.5/ 5 (#2) NBC – 2020 Democratic Candidates Debate: 6.7/12 (#1)/

[jarnon]

From the title of Bob's post and SSS's analysis of the TV ratings, it seems that even committed Democrats see a debate this early as more of a reality show than a significant political event. It fills the time between Clyburn's fish fry and the Iowa straw poll.

I just watched it, and I learned some lesser-known candidates' names, faces and priorities.

[Bob Juch]

From the title of Bob's post and SSS's analysis of the TV ratings, it seems that even committed Democrats see a debate this early as more of a reality show than a significant political event. It fills the time between Clyburn's fish fry and the Iowa straw poll.

I just watched it, and I learned some lesser-known candidates' names, faces and priorities.

Exactly, it's more of a coming out party. It did show a bad side of some of the men though.

[Beebs52]

To answer the thread title-
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[Beebs52]

This is interesting.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story ... hts-121077

[Bob Juch]

This is interesting.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story ... hts-121077

Yes, but way off topic.

[Beebs52]

This is interesting.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story ... hts-121077

Yes, but way off topic.

Kamala Harris much?

[BackInTex]

This is interesting.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story ... hts-121077

Yes, but way off topic.

Kamala Harris much?

By off topic he means factual.

[Ritterskoop]

I have come to respect Politico as a valid news source.

Also, I found that particular piece interesting, to think about what aspects of busing didn't work.

Growing up, my perception of Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools was that busing worked to force kids to spend time with people who didn't look like them, and that part of it was good. The long bus rides, not so much. CMS is a huge system and one of the first to implement busing (we had Swann vs the Board of Education).

I went to middle and high school one county over, where we rode the bus 45 minutes because that's where the school was. We had four county high schools and one in Monroe, which was a separate system. Inefficient. It took years to combine Union County and Monroe schools systems because the white parents in the north, just outside of Charlotte, didn't want their kids being bused south to go to school with black kids in Monroe and at the two southern high schools.

There was a moment where, with 100 counties, North Carolina had 143 school systems, and much of it was to preserve stuff like this. Wake County had five separate school system in the 80s. Just wildly inefficient, to pay all those administrators to do what one group could have done.

So I thought CMS kids were being bused for a good reason, to learn to get along with each other, and for the most part, that aspect of it did work. But then some folks moved here in the 90s and didn't like where their kids were going to be sent, and they sued the school system and won. So now we are back to neighborhood schools, which should be good because you can walk to them and be part of the community, but it feels like we failed.