Midterm debates and Trump's Alaska trip lead the week

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSenate and House debates return this week, with contests in Iowa, Maine and New York, less than a month before Election Day.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe president is also set to campaign about as far from Washington as he can get, in Alaska.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorDebates. Grown adults standing at podiums, promising things to a room that has already decided.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorI give it three days before someone cries, and I'm hoping it's the moderator.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistIowa, Maine and New York in one week.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistThat's a front moving across the whole map, and I'm telling you, somebody is getting a cold glare at the podium by Wednesday.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorBrock, I'd like a number. How many people are getting a cold glare?

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistAll of them, Hank. Every last candidate, and a couple of lamps.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorLamps. Finally, someone on that stage who won't interrupt.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorBoth parties are fighting for control of Congress, so the stakes are real, even if the lamps are not.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorLet me finish, because the stakes are exactly the problem.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorEveryone will say they won, the replay will say they all lost, and by Thursday we will be arguing about a tie.

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    Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistAnd Alaska!

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    Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistThe president goes up there and it's a cold snap with a campaign bus, and nobody has checked the wind chill on a handshake.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorWind chill on a handshake. Brilliant. Terrifying.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI have won exactly one debate in my life, and it was with a vending machine.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorAnd?

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt kept my dollar.