# Who Did Well last Night?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-well-last-night/716698>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [April 3, 2015, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-well-last-night/716698 "2015-04-03T09:38:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![JustinC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justinc/32/8083_2.png) [@JustinC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustinC)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-well-last-night/716698/1 "2015-04-03T09:38:21Z")

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I think it’s very difficult to say ‘who won’ without letting personal political preferences get in the way of rational thoughts on which party leader came across better on a tv program that has not a lot to do with leading a country.

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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-well-last-night/716698/2 "2015-04-03T13:22:16Z")

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Can you provide more detail? I have no idea what election you’re referring to.

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**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-well-last-night/716698/3 "2015-04-03T13:59:43Z")

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> [@Northern\_Piper](#):
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> Can you provide more detail? I have no idea what election you’re referring to.

The one that was held last night. Duh!!

Can we infer anything from “program” instead of “programme”, or is the latter not used anywhere. The least the OP could have done was drop a “labor/labour” hint or something…

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**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-well-last-night/716698/4 "2015-04-03T14:04:58Z")

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A bunch of British politicians were apparently on a [TV show](http://www.cityam.com/213074/leaders-debate-why-nigel-farage-failed-breakthrough-hiv-claim) last night.

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**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-well-last-night/716698/5 "2015-04-03T18:18:02Z")

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NPR was having technical difficulties yesterday morning so the local public radio station played BBC news. The upcoming debate was featured–apparently a New Thing in British politics.

US presidential debates were described for historical reasons. And how the candidates try to be remembered–but not for blowing it. Which led to the clip of My Own Ex-Governor explaining how he’d close 3 government agencies if he won–but only remembering the names of 2.

Made me proud…