We had another Democratic debate last night, and we have another one coming up on Wednesday, and the GOP has another one coming this Thursday. The GOP has had over a dozen debates while the Democrats are not that far behind. My question is do we really need any more debates?? Moderators ask the same questions over and over again, and candidates give the same canned answers over and over again. Does anyone really think anything new is going to come out of these debates?? The GOP is making fools of themselves, talking about everything except the issues, and while Democrats are talking issues, it’s the same issues that they’ve talked about earlier.
It’s time to put an end to the debates until the parties have picked their nominees. Any debate that takes place between now and then are going to be completely useless. The only people who think debates are still useful, are the policy wonks and political junkies who live for this sort of thing. Only 5.5 million people listened to last Democratic debate, and the only reason more people watched the GOP debate was to see Larry, Moe and Curly take shots at each other. Please, enough of these useless, boring, stupid debates. Overkill to the max!!
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I’d listen to a real debate like Sanders & Clinton discussing foreign policy or health care or trade. Each candidate presents his/her position, opponent gets to rebut and so forth. Coin flip decides who goes first. Moderator to moderate, i.e. call out rule violations and watch the time. NO moderator questions, no rigged questions from the pre-selected audience. A Lincoln-Douglas type debate, not these joint press conferences.
Yes, I’d listen to a Republican debate like that too. They’d have to limit it to three. You can’t have a debate between 12 people.
The problem with debates for me isn’t the substance, it’s how many of them they do. You can ask only so many questions to a candidate before they become repetitive. Hold maybe 5-6 debates overall for both parties and space them out, (one a month). Having two Democratic debates in the same week is just plain dumb.
There’s seven important topics right there. And no e-mail server, why did you honeymoon in russia, or other BS topics.
8. future of Social security – how could I forget?