Damian Majewski

On September 26, I attended the party for the political debate in the Campus Center Board of Trustees.  This event was run by professional staff members of the political science department at Stockton.  At this event, I was greeted with light refreshments and was able to meet others interested in watching our country fall apart.  Since these debates featuring the current candidates could be considered a joke, the viewing was accompanied with a bingo board.  While many of the phrases on it pertained to Trump and his shenanigans like ‘You’re fired’ and ‘China,’ Clinton had some such as ‘emails.’  During the debate,  topics such as Social Security and third Parties never came up, which defeats the purpose of creating a national televised debate for those issues. What surprised me most about this debate is that is was not aired on Comedy Central.  Although a small amount of informative statements happened during the debate, the main focus was on the two candidates.  I found that the debate was centered more around personal attacks, rather than the candidates focusing on the topics.  Some of their comments were quite entertaining such as “Trumped up, trickle down economics”, attacks at Trump for his tax releases, and Clinton’s email scandal.  I found the event itself to be put together well with the inclusion of another projector displaying live tweets on the debate all night.  The highlight of the night was when the debate closed and they announced that the upcoming one would be held in Arizona, which was the last word I needed for bingo.  With three debates left before people head out to the polls, I am excited to attend another one of these events.