NOTE TO READERS: I am at a motel in Missouri with exceedingly slow internet and the hotel does not get Fox News. Due to these to factors I cannot live blog the debate tonight. I may monitor the debate on line. This means I may take some excerpts from live blogging or news reports about the debate. But I myself will not be able to watch it online or on television. Post from here is snail-paced. Once the debate begins, I may do a post that will contain some key entries and news stories and links to news stories and websites covering the debate.
UPDATE: The technical problems are too great and delays far too long in getting to websites so I will not post anymore tonighit. I will not will try to post tomorrow morning but that may be limited. My regular posting will resume once I am at another city — and a different hotel — tomorrow afternoon. If I do a post on the debate it’ll be at that time.
Check TMV often tonight and tomorrow since other TMV writers may have some views on tonight’s debate.
Note if you travel: I’m in the middle of a national tour. I am at a hotel almost every night. I have found Internet at Days Inns can be very spotty no matter what they tell you on the phone so I will not stay at another Days’ Inn ever again (I call first and go to a hotel if they tell me the Internet is good). The most reliable non-luxury motel Internet: Holiday Inns and Best Westerns. Followed by (most of the time) Super 8s.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.