Share your impressions and opinions! “Sunday’s live debate between presidential candidates Arnold Vinick and Matt Santos will be far from politics — or television — as usual.”
Laurence O’Donnell, who balances work as a political analyst and a “West Wing” executive producer, said the hourlong episode represents “my wish-fulfillment debate.”
“We are using the accepted liturgy of presidential debates. It will look the same, it will be moderated by Forrest Sawyer, a real news person, it will have all that real feel to it,” O’Donnell said.
“But I think it will be more satisfying in that the candidates end up really going into the issues in a way that they normally would not,” he said. “They end up each forcing the other to get more honest as the debate wears on.” Seattle Times
The debate airs live at both 8pm ET and 8pm PT on NBC. (Yes, they’re doing the debate twice, and live, for both coasts.)
