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View Poll Results: 180 minutes of Presidential/Vice Presidential debates have been aired so far. How much of them woul
180 - Every minute 8 11.43%
[150, 180) 8 11.43%
[120, 150) 8 11.43%
[90, 120) 7 10.00%
[60, 90) 10 14.29%
[30, 60) 4 5.71%
(0, 30) 8 11.43%
0 - Haven't seen any 17 24.29%
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Old 10-08-2004, 12:38 PM
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Yes, this is a political-type question. I'm posting it here in the hopes of sampling a wider cross-section of posters, not just us wonks. Thank you for your forebearance.
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Old 10-08-2004, 12:40 PM
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I watched about 45 minutes of the first debate.

As much as I enjoyed the faces that Bush was making, 45 minutes was more than enough for me.
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Old 10-08-2004, 01:00 PM
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[150, 180) - I need commercial breaks to use the bathroom. I didn't come prepared for the VP debate.
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Old 10-08-2004, 01:03 PM
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all of the Pres. Nothing else was on and son needed to do a write-up for school.

Missed beginning of VP and then flipped in & out
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Old 10-08-2004, 01:06 PM
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I think I'm at about 175 minutes. I turned the VP debate off with a few minutes left. In fairness though, my back was to the TV for about the last half hour of the VP debate as I was looking at internet porn and not the TV. That's why I had to turn off the TV with a few minutes to go, it was distracting me from being able to concentrate on the porn as much as I needed too. But then I turned the TV back on to hear the talking heads after the debate was over.
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Watched: none

Listened: about 15
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Old 10-08-2004, 01:14 PM
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I watched the Pres debate and part of the VP debate. I'll probably watch some of the Pres debate tonight.
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I've probably watched about 280 minutes, if you count all the news excerpts I've seen.
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180 but I have TiVo so I watch parts of it to put myself to sleep at night. Not really on the putting myself to sleep part.
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Watched all the VP debate, was traveling and watched only about 5 minutes of the Presidential debate.
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