So lot of of eyeballs will be glued to a lot of screens to watch politics, and they are to some degree captive. But modern political campaigns are also about theater, and that's where debates get tricky. George W. Bush worries about that. He shouldn't count on it. Michael Sheehan is the debate wizard who prepped Clinton in 1996 and helped prepare Gore for his announcement speech this year.
Every stupid mistake comes then.
It's the clubhouse turn where the horse falls. So the Gore team this year held out for 90-minute debates and got them. The team figures that before 90 minutes is over, Bush may be tired, edgy and feeling the pressure. Singles won't do it for him. The debates give Bush the opportunity to hit a homer, but that is a lot of pressure.