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Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012 | 2 a.m.
Disregard today’s column. It won’t impress you. There’s no way around that, not when you factor in how little practice I have at this sort of thing and how much more articulate my fellow columnists are. Also, I went to bed the other night with the sniffles and woke up to a spotty Internet connection, and then there’s the matter of my right pinkie, which I’m pretty sure I sprained over the weekend when I lifted an unusually large martini. So on top of my hangover, I feel a stabbing every time I type a semicolon or a “p,” which ...
Frank Bruni is a columnist for The New York Times.
I enjoyed your column Mr. Bruni. Very entertaining. I'm hoping and planning that the debates will not be [entertaining]. The survival of the republic as we know it and it should be hinges on the 90 minutes debate tonight. Some may say that is a gross overstatement. I would say to them it could not be stated with enough.
CarmineD
To almost 90% of American voters, the debates mean very little.
"To almost 90% of American voters, the debates mean very little."
Do you have a source reference for that percentage? If so, please post it. Or did you just pull a number out of the air.
As I know, Americans can quote verbatim debate exchanges among presidents and presidential candidates going back years and years. If the majority of the hoi polloi are as disinterested as you claim, explain to me why this is so [they can quote chapter and verse from the previous debates].
CarmineD
Debates have lost much of their importance because of early voting. Some places have already been voting for almost a week, how can the debates possibly affect them?
I think that early voting should be restricted to no more than one week prior to election day. Better yet, have an election period of just one week that either begins or ends on our current election day. At least then developing events and debates might have some relevance to the election.