There's a sense one gets, particularly in the middle of a heady political season that politics is more theater than anything else.
There's the bright lights of the debates and the repeat performances of the same stump speeches with the same jokes.
And so with that aspect of the campaigns in mind Frank Rich of the New york Times and CNN's Donna Brazile, come to town tonight for a conversation called: Politics and Propaganda, Designing the President.
It's part of the Cleveland Public Library's Lockwood Thompson Dialogues. ideastream spoke with Rich for this preview.