When Fox News went to Frank Luntz's focus group of undecided voters, one of my favorite debate-night features, three women in a row said that the Vice-President's behavior had been irritating and disrespectful.
This week President Barack Obama rekindled a couple of the Internet's favorite debates: whether it's appropriate to take selfies at funerals, and whether everyone should learn to code.
Vote on your favorite, and debate -- or suggest your own candidate -- in the comments.
In short order, most New Yorkers could begin resuming normal life, which for many included a favorite pastime: debating the wisdom of their leaders.
And in my head I replayed my favorite post-debate analyses: Al Gore's wondering if the altitude in Denver had incapacitated Obama; one Republican strategist's description of that Obama performance and Biden's subsequent mania as a "sleepy cop/crystal meth cop" routine.
We didn't try to measure quality since that's a matter of personal taste, and the best-restaurant or favorite-bar debate can get fierce.
That's when I found "The Black Guy Who Tips" and immediately transported back to the days of hanging out in my favorite barbershop debating life's minutia for hours.
The audience, quite delightfully, displayed the strong opinions and partisan enjoyment of sports fans, rooting for favorites and debating the relative merits of performances, even in some cases without prior specialized knowledge of the music.
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