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Presidential Debates: Questions
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Through 17 debates this year, roughly 1,500 questions have been asked of the two parties' presidential candidates. But only a small handful of questions have touched on the candidates' views on executive power, the Constitution, torture, wiretapping, or other civil liberties concerns.
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The presidential debates so far have been a mockery of a sham, featuring shallow questions, few follow-ups, and even worse in the case of the last CNN debate. The following video proposes a new type of debate.
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The moderator will ask the questions in all but the town hall presidential debate on Oct 8. At that debate, the questions will come from an audience of ''soft'' Bush and ''soft'' Kerry supporters chosen by the Gallup organization. They will submit questions in advance, which will only be seen by the moderator. The moderator will choose the questions, which will be asked by the audience member who submitted it.
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The 2004 presidential debates are misnamed: each candidate "answers" a question in a two-minute soundbite; this is not "debating" an issue, as any high school debate team member can attest. It is a made-for-TV battle of spin and the candidate wins who has the best marketing people on staff (who develop memorable "bites" on each issue).
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The reviews of CNN/You Tube presidential debate are in, and it seems no political analyst, reporter or blogger was particularly impressed. The debate, described by CNN as the first that was "solely in the voters' hands," allowed "ordinary" voters to submit via YouTube videos of themselves asking questions directly to the Democratic candidates running for president.
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On May 3, the GOP presidential candidates will be debating live on MSNBC and it will be streamed live at Politico.com. The latter site is looking for user-submitted questions for the candidates. You need to sign up, but that's free. You can ... vote up questions.
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