Summary: The first presidential debate is in the books. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/karen-tumulty/">Karen Tumulty</a> of the Washington Post offers analysis of the debate’s high and low moments, ridiculous claims and mistruths, and what it all means.<br> Right after the debate, Hillary Clinton headed to North Carolina, a key battleground state that is also experiencing tight Senate and gubernatorial contests. <a href="http://www.wral.com/rs/bio/8970525/">Laura Leslie</a> of TV station WRAL in Raleigh explores the politics of the Tar Heel State.<br> And it was 56 years ago this week that the first televised presidential debate, between Vice President Richard Nixon and Massachusetts Sen. John Kennedy, was held. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_N._Minow">Newton Minow</a>, a JFK aide who later served as Kennedy’s chair of the Federal Communications Commission and who, at 90 years old, is also a vice chair of the current Commission on Presidential Debates, recounts everything surrounding that first debate in 1960.<br> <a href="http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/09/26/debate-highlights-trump-vs-hillary-clinton-video-clips-key-moments">Photo via Fox News</a><br> Music used in the podcast:<br> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inQiIkz7J5Y">Ayatollah by Steve Dahl & Teenage Radiation</a><br> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lies-Very-Best-KNICKERBOCKERS/dp/B000009QJD">Lies by The Knickerbockers</a><br> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Joe-Cocker/dp/B00001X58Q">She Came In Through The Bathroom by Joe Cocker</a> <br> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T9Pb3YMovQ">Unfinished Life by Audiomachine</a><br> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAhOJ1dLviQ">Television Man by Talking Heads</a><br> <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" rel="license"></a><br> This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" rel="license">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a><br>
