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UGA debate guru: Donald Trump left his audience hanging -- and kept the video debacle alive

Donald Trump shakes hands with Hillary Clinton during the second presidential debate earlier this month. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

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Donald Trump shakes hands with Hillary Clinton during the second presidential debate earlier this month. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
By Jim Galloway
Oct 10, 2016

Edward Panetta, professor of communication studies at the University of Georgia, just sent over his grading of last night's second presidential debate between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump.

Panetta, the director of the Georgia Debate Union for 27 years. makes a good point – that Trump may have disappointed the crowd (and more importantly, extended the life of the controversy) when he quickly shifted the topic away from the Access Hollywood video. To wit:

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Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.

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