The presidential election is all over except for the actual voting. No more polls, Super PAC ads, oversized postcards delivered to your mailboxes and automated robocalls filling up your answering machines. I’m sure you, like me, are ready for the barrage of electioneering to end.

Despite our collective frustration with what seems to be the never-ending election season, as lawyers and communications professionals we have a lot to learn from the presidential campaigns. Perhaps most importantly, there are a number of lessons we can learn from the recent presidential debates and the single vice presidential debate.