Presidential Debates

[Emsworth]

What format are you looking for in debates?

I would imagine that a question-response-six rebuttals format wouldn't work too well. Might I suggest a simple question-responses format?

[Emsworth]

We could always have different moderators for different debates - Ernest for one, Ford for another, etc.

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Two seperate debates, one for the left and one for the right starting on May 26, with candidates allowed to choose which one of the two debates they are in.

I like this idea. It would be even more interesting to have a leftist conducting the "right" debate and a rightist doing the "left" debate.

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Classifying some candidates as "top" candidates would, in my opinion, unfairly damage the candidacies of the others.

Instead, may I propose a random distribution of candidates?

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That wouldn't work, with the right and left. Who is the left? Peter and who? Dibble is far-right econimically and King is a centrist.

Good point. Perhaps we should have two debates, each with an assortment of leftist, rightist, and centrist/other candidates, to make the arguments much more interesting. For example:

Debate 1
StatesRights
Bell
King
Phil

Debate 2
Hobbes
Supersoulty
Dibble

Alternatively, the candidates could simply be randomly distributed.

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How about we base debate participation on a poll?  Debate 1 will have all 8 candidates, Debate 2 will have the top 5 finishers in a simple poll, and D3 will be just the two big contenders.

I thought there were only 7 candidates (Bell, Hobbes, King, Supersoulty, States, Dibble, Phil). Whom did I miss?