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Presidential Debate Bingo - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.


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  1. "Social Security"
  2. "Fake News"
  3. Red herring (distracting from the main issue with an irrelevant point)
  4. "Tax returns"
  5. "National security"
  6. "Infrastructure bill"
  7. "Healthcare"
  8. "Clean energy"
  9. False dilemma (presenting only two options when more exist)
  10. Yelling or shouting
  11. "Jobs"
  12. Moderator having to step in
  13. "Mental health"
  14. "Foreign policy"
  15. "Infrastructure"
  16. Hasty generalization (drawing a conclusion based on insufficient evidence)
  17. "Immigration reform"
  18. Candidates using rehearsed one-liners or catchphrases
  19. "Trade deals"
  20. "Make America Great Again"
  21. "Inflation"
  22. "Police reform"
  23. "Sleepy Joe"
  24. Technical difficulties
  25. Candidates talking over each other
  26. "Supreme Court"
  27. "LGBTQ+ rights"
  28. Crowd reactions (cheering, booing, etc.)
  29. "Gas prices"
  30. "Middle class"
  31. Personal attacks or name-calling
  32. Candidates repeating the same point multiple times
  33. Appeal to authority (using the opinion of an authority figure as evidence)
  34. "China"
  35. "Affordable housing"
  36. Begging the question (assuming the truth of what one is supposed to prove)
  37. Bandwagon (arguing that something is true because it is popular)
  38. "Build Back Better"
  39. "Minimum wage"
  40. "Cybersecurity"
  41. Candidates going over their allotted time
  42. "Student loans"
  43. "Economy"
  44. Reference to the border wall
  45. Slippery slope (arguing that one action will lead to a series of negative events)
  46. Candidates avoiding answering the question directly
  47. Ad hominem (attacking the opponent instead of their argument)
  48. "Afghanistan"
  49. "Law and order"
  50. Mention of Ukraine
  51. Loaded question (asking a question that contains a presupposition)
  52. "COVID-19 pandemic"
  53. "Medicare"
  54. "Green New Deal"
  55. Use of props (charts, photos, etc.)
  56. "Women’s rights"
  57. "Second Amendment"
  58. "Education"
  59. Appeal to emotion (using emotions rather than facts to persuade)
  60. "Racial justice"
  61. "Russia"
  62. "Abortion"
  63. Mention of Hunter Biden
  64. "Election fraud"
  65. "Gun control"
  66. "Voting rights"
  67. Strawman (misrepresenting the opponent's argument to make it easier to attack)
  68. "Veterans"
  69. Non sequitur (a conclusion that doesn't logically follow from the premises)
  70. Candidates making jokes or sarcastic remarks
  71. Post hoc ergo propter hoc (assuming that because one event followed another, it was caused by the first)
  72. Appeal to tradition (arguing that something should continue because it has traditionally been done that way)
  73. "Climate Change"
  74. "Unemployment rate"
  75. Circular reasoning (the argument's conclusion is used as a premise)
  76. "Obamacare"
  77. Awkward pauses
  78. "Bipartisanship"
  79. Interruptions by one candidate
  80. Moderator muting a candidate's microphone