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In The Gist, PBS NewsHour correspondent Lisa Desjardins surveys the presidential campaigns’ get-out-the-vote efforts: “The first caveat is a lot of the rules don’t apply to this campaign.”
In the Spiel, are presidential debates the NFL Scouting Combine? Not enough to show if a player will be good on the field, but enough to show they have no business being there in the first place?
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