A job interview for the White House

Need another reason to watch the debate tonight? In his Seven Questions interview, elections expert and Northeastern University professor Alan Schroeder told FP:

[The debates have] been called a job interview, so a lot of times we are just going on instinct. You don’t know what really will happen when you hire someone, so does this person give off an aura of being able to handle the very difficult job of being president? You can’t know for sure, but you can apply the very same judgments about human interaction that you use on daily basis. That’s what debates do that the rest of the campaign trail doesn’t.

Read the whole interview for Professor Schroeder's take on each of the candidates' debating styles. You might even wind up more prepared than the presidential hopefuls.