The debate was lame. Compare the "debate" we had here to the February 2012 debate, structured and moderated by GM Shua. This debate completely flew in the face of the entire campaign. It was an opportunity for candidates who didn't discuss policy much during the campaign to answer generic questions with their positions on issues that may or may not be important to the campaign. This isn't a Political Matrix test. A debate should give you insight to what each candidate would actually do as President, and the timing and structure of the debate did not allow it. I tried to organize a series of debates over the course of the campaign, other candidates were less willing to participate. If those candidates wanted to talk about policy, they had 2 whole months to do so. That they decided not to is no one's fault but their own. Frankly, that was the worst excuse for a debate imaginable and I will not participate in a debate like that again for any office.
Forgive me for my frustration that people were willing to entertain a candidacy that did the bulk of its campaigning through personal attacks in the IRC (joined by many others as you may be aware of), provided very few policy proposals, and couldn't even answer how his platform would differ from mine when asked. Oh, and the last time we elected him, he resigned without doing anything. Even ignoring the hateful things said about me behind the scenes by the little chatroom crew, I had to deal with the now-removed rantings of yourself and Snowstalker.
I probably posted a few rants about this, but disillusionment with the system lead me to vote for the candidate that wants to destroy it. You guys had plenty of times to arrange a debate that would be on irc/skype/youtube whatever new technology you wanted to use and could be real time and engaging. In the end I decided to vote for oak over you because his positions are more clear to me because of engagement in IRC. Also excuse my generalizations but you also took a hardline bureaucratic stance only focusing on your favorite issues(typically the normal ones held by US liberals), and generally unwilling to engage in meaningful dialogue. I'll say that I'm prepared to work with both administrations, as the current right-wing senate is completely unacceptable and almost destroyed the public education system and has a certain extremist in it who submits troll bills all the time.
