Timing is everything in politics.
If New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Jack Layton had not emerged as the clear winner of the 2011 federal leaders’ English language debate in Canada, the Liberal Party may have had a chance to regroup and stop the Conservative Party from forming a majority government.
If a televised debate had not aired so early on CNN in the presidential electoral season this year, Democratic Party supporters in the United States would not have realized that Joe Biden had to be replaced as their nominee.
