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Originally Posted by Slava
This is why there should be multiple debates. There is really no reason that they couldn't have a debate once a week for the campaign period, and a lot of questions. I know they need to visit cheese factories and get in the way at lumber mills or whatever else, but they should be openly facing questions more often.
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Multiple debates but have them be heavily controlled and moderated. Political debates are typically nothing but theatre, with a few snippets of useful information sprinkled in. Have them actually mean something.
- I'd love them to be a 3+ hour process, with certain questions known beforehand, and the parties/candidates have to arrive with actual data/policy/informaton.
- Allow the answers and information provided in the debates to be fact checked by a pre-selected panel of journalistic organizations.
- After the first debate, and each subsequent debate, if anything has come up regarding the previous debate (discovered errors, misinformation, etc.) the first 30 minutes of the debate is to revisit those items.
- If your election period is say 6 weeks, you have to have your fully costed platform live and submitted by end of week 3, so debates 4/5/6 can include questioning on them.