Presidential Debate Drinking Games

- Debate begins at 9: 00 pm EDT, September 26, 2008
- Moderator: PBS newsman Jim Lehrer
- Located at the University of Mississippi at Oxford

Presidential Debate Drinking Games are perhaps an inevitable outcome of hosting the first debate between candidates Barack Obama and John McCain on a Friday night on a college campus.
Several websites including Comedy Central have suggested a way for people to get more involved in the first 2008 presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain on September 26, 2008: a drinking game, where participants must drink shots of alcohol and/or perform other stunts whenever the candidates or moderators use a specific phrase.
Comedy Central
1. Comedy Central: Any mention of 9-11: prank-call Rudy Giuliani
2. McCain mentions "the Surge": drink a Red Bull
3. Jim Lehrer says something boring: send yourself a Celtic Thunder tote bagComedy Central: The Presidential Debate Drinking Game (September 25, 2008)
University of Florida
1. Shots must be taken every time Obama says "change" or "hope"
2. Any mention of a hurricane by name
3. McCain mentions "his friends"University of Florida: The Presidential Debate Drinking Game (September 26, 2008)
University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa
1. Double shots if McCain says "Soviet Union" for "Russia"
2. Banned in the interest of alcoholism: "change" or "financial crisis" by either candidate; "surge and success" in the same sentence by McCain; "McCain-Bush" or "Bush-McCain" by ObamaTuscaloosa News: Debate Drinking Game (September 26, 2008)