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...turn over the reins to you young people out there, that we turn over to you an America that is every bit as full of opportunity, hope, and confidence and dreams as we knew when we were your age," Reagan said near the end of his half-hour stump speech...
Except for opening remarks delivered specifically for the Boston audience, Reagan delivered his basic stump speech, which included a celebration of the Grenada invasions, criticisms of Mondale's tax plan, and a description of how life has improved since the economic recovery...
...they would handle the vital foreign policy and defense issues that the nation will face in the next four years, but they did so only sporadically and, it sometimes seemed, unintentionally. The debate, like the entire campaign, encouraged generalizations, evasions, safe (as opposed to responsive) answers, rote excerpts from stump speeches and, too often, cheap shots. The candidates concentrated on scoring points off each other, where possible aiming backward, at the past...
Negative case: The debates are not really debates at all, but joint press conferences in which the candidates spout the same canned speeches that they give on the stump. They put a premium on glibness and showmanship, and greatly penalize a candidate for verbal slips or unpolished gestures, neither of which has much relevance to governing. They prevent rather than promote any real discussion of complex issues, allowing candidates to get away with simplistic and/or distorted presentations that cannot be refuted effectively in the time allowed...
...much of September, public opinion polls did not reflect the excitement generated by Ferraro on the stump. Many surveys, in fact, showed an increase in her negative ratings. But the new Times/CRS poll found that the number of voters who view her favorably has jumped 10 points in the past month...