DAVID MARCUS: The Vance vs. Walz debate is best scored using boxing rules
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Ninety percent of Americans likely already know who they are voting for. Only 10 percent can be swayed and boxing’s unique scoring system almost perfectly corresponds to this.
David Marcus is a columnist living in West Virginia and the author of "Charade: The COVID Lies That Crushed A Nation."
That having been said, I’ve recently adopted a method of scoring debates from the world of pugilistics, that I think actually gives a pretty decent assessment of what most American voters see.
My advice in picking a winner is to borrow the scoring system of a boxing match. The basic rules are relatively simple. In each round the boxer who wins the 3 minutes gets 10 points, the loser gets 9, unless there is a knockdown or it is overwhelming, in which case the round is scored 10-8. A tie is 10-10.
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