"Our country depends on people of different perspectives talking through the issues and trying to find common ground. I think we have a lack of civility in part today because we don't really see that modeled by many political leaders," said Gibbs Knotts, a Coastal Carolina University political scientist.
Some skeptics cite that lack of civility - the insults lobbed and misinformation that often overshadows substantial policy discussion - as reason to abandon debates.
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