Scholars of communication and politics assess a presidential debate with a clear loser, but no clear winner.
- Adjunct Professor of Politics and Director of Think Again, University of Virginia
Many years beyond the average American retirement age, politicians vie for power and influence. Their constituents tend to prefer they step back and pass the torch to younger people.
How does a State of the Union speech get written? A former White House presidential speechwriter describes the many hands in this process.
A former speechwriter for President George H.W. Bush watched the Virginia governor’s race through the eyes of her students at the University of Virginia, whose concerns were shared by most voters.
A three-month-long group conversation with some of the newest American voters yields insights both worrisome and promising.
Jim Lehrer moderated 12 presidential debates between 1988 and 2012. His lessons on how to run a debate should be studied by today’s moderators, writes a former presidential speechwriter.
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