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One of the recurring themes of most concern to the candidates and their teams is the discussions, for of these have created several myths.

candidates almost always go down in the polls because they want to urgently discuss naively believe that a good performance in the debate will catapult to the top of the preferences.

On the contrary, who heads the preferences or believes that the heads refuse to discuss because it believes that a bad afternoon or evening can lead to losing the gains.

Generally, when addressing this issue, I hear arguments that most likely will not have any basis to support why or why not should be discussed.

how often hear quoted the famous Kennedy-Nixon debate, as an example of how a televised debate may be decisive for winning or losing, but always fails to see how people talk about the many cases in which he won the debate lost elections.

why the debate should be put in their proper perspective and consider some things before taking the decision to debate or not.

1. Hardly a debate can decide an election. There are numerous cases in which the winner of debate was the loser of the election and vice versa.

2. Although often achieve good ratings, the fact is that most voters do not suspend or stop their daily activities to see their favorite programs to see how the candidates try to bust each other. Therefore, the effect on the electorate.

3. Each follows a debate viewer who does it from the filter of electoral preferences you already have, so that supporters of Candidate A probably think in the end that their choice was better in the debate, while sympathetic to the Candidate B think what their own candidate.

So there is minimal effect of a debate to voters to change their voting intentions.

4. The emotional effect that can generate a debate, when one of the candidates had a performance out of series that earned him one point, or when someone had a disastrous performance that dragged him down, it is usually temporary, so you have consider this affection to decide whether to seek to have a debate in the near or distant to the election.