Sunday 10 March 2019

How I'd Run Presidential Debates

First, no audience.

Second, just two individuals, and one single moderator.

Third, no news journalist as moderator.  He or she has to be some game-show host (like a Pat Sajack-character). 

Fourth, all questions would come from a public submission database, with a limit of 150 keystrokes.  This way, we don't have idiot spending two minutes asking a very in-depth and complex question.  The database would include a minimum of 12,000 questions, which would make it impossible for questions to be known ahead of time.

Fifth, camera angles can't be changed or flipped to some extreme close-up.  Three cameras set to each candidate.....and one single camera on the moderator.

Sixth, once the question is posed....the candidate would get three minutes to respond, and the second candidate would then get sixty seconds to go at the first guy. 

Seventh, you would start the debate no later than 7 PM local time, and end it 90 minutes later.

Eighth, no more than three of these debates.....all to come the final two weeks of the election period. 

Ninth, one single VP debate, to be held a week prior to the Presidential debates starting up.

Ten, and final.....no standing debates. 

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