Debate Watch

    The 2015 Presidential Debates have been filled with all sorts of interesting remarks, that have provoked a wide range of emotions from the audience.  With that being said, the presidential candidates have had their share of trip-ups where they end up using fallacies in their discourses.  

    One of the most promising candidates of the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton, has had her fair share of.  The fallacy she tends to use the most is the straw man.  She consistently evaded the questions that were asked, and kept refocusing them to talk about her talking points that she felt more comfortable using.  Blue Prints LSAT compared it to Secretary Clinton turning the questions on their head, and giving an answer to a completely different question.

    In the same party, Governor Martin O'Malley used appeal to emotion, and tried using tragic experiences in his life instead of using examples of his leadership.  For example, he gave a teary-eyed remembrance of some of the funeral's he has attended in Baltimore rather than explain how he has helped improve the city.