2nd DEM Debate Thread: July 30 & 31, Detroit (MI), CNN

[Ilhan Apologist]

I think we will finally see some dropouts by the time its announced who has qualified. Swalwell is likely being bumped out by Bullock so he's probably done. If Moulton doesn't make it either then I don't see how he can continue on. There is no viable path if you can't make the debates. September debate is when the real culling begins.

Moulton never had a path to the nomination, and that never stopped him.

[Ilhan Apologist]

This is how they should do random


-  first  randomally divide top 5 candidates (so each debate has at least two candidates from top 5)

- then do same thing for 6-10,11-15,16-20

This. Very much this.

[Ilhan Apologist]

Question:

Are seated debates not common in the US ?

I’d like to have a debate where candidates are seated in cozy chairs like we have here in Austria.

Debate podiums are unnecessarily stiff.

There was a 2008 GOP primary debate that looked like a game show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9EzQy1qHMc

Seated debates just look weird, they look less like presidential debates and more like a family dinner conversation. Truly, if a candidate can't be standing for thirty minutes till a commercial break then that candidate probably isn't strong enough to be president

You just gave me an idea. A presidential debate around a literal dinner table.

[Ilhan Apologist]

I want one night to have Warren and Harris and the other to have Sanders and Biden.

[Ilhan Apologist]

Disgusting

[Ilhan Apologist]

Who should I root for on the 2nd night? De Blasio?

Yeah...