In a very low key week of campaigning all the manifesto's have been published (and more on those later in the week), but today is meant to make my election pulse beat faster as tonight, in fact right now as I type, Britain holds its first US style 'head to head' debate.
Am I watching it? Nope. And why not I hear you wonder, after all this should be right up this blogs street, but it ain't, and I'll explain why.
I already know that, like the US 'debates', which I have watched on the Internet, the so called 'debates' will be so hedged around by rules, designed by all sides to prevent any 'Nixon' like events, that it will be almost impossible for a repeat of that sort of drama, even with Gordon Brown.
There were two audiences back then, each equally as large, TV and Radio. Many radio listeners declared Nixon the first debate winner (going off substance), whereas the overwhelming majority of the TV watchers went off what they saw, and not what was said, and declared Kennedy the winner.
In the UK its a three way debate, with the Tories, Labour, and the Liberals, which means substance will be at a premium, with soundbite policies the 'order of the day'..... I'll guess now and say that no one gets 'knocked out', all are declared the 'winner' by their own spin doctors, and probably the 'Liberal Party' will do the best out of it.
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