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ever since they gutted the process from being a real debate, and the league of women voters bowed out its more 'why bother'

Or "ho hum."

Who doesn't know the candidates yet and thinks they'll learn anything about them?

Well Scooby Doo can doo-doo but Jimmy Carter is smarter.

Classic NY Times article headline.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

And that, dear reader, means On Politics will now start showing up in your inbox every weekday evening, as my colleagues and I try to make sense of this weird and weighty election.

Some years, presidential debates come with wild anticipation — a moment for people on either side of the political divide to rally ahead of a battle for the future of the country.

But Biden’s history of successful debates has not stopped his supporters from worrying, especially when Republicans are doing everything they can — including deceptively editing videos — to stoke doubts about his fitness because of his age.

Seventy-five years ago, a group of businessmen worried that communism was going to take over this country started a small charity called America’s Future.

As Phyllis Schlafly, a leading right-wing anti-feminist activist, became more of an influence on the organization starting in the 1970s, its material called for the review of school curriculums to make sure children were being taught about traditional roles of the sexes.

And it became aligned with the next phase in far-right conspiratorial ideology: the false notion that there’s a shadowy cabal of high-level officials involved in exploiting and trafficking children.

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