YES! They just said on MSNBC that there will be NO

[skylucy]

applause, cheers or booing during the debate on Monday! That will NOT be helpful to Trump. Any nasty, ignorant thing that comes out of his pie-hole will just hang in the air to stink up the place. Also,repeating empty phrases and yelling "Believe me" etc. won't evoke any cheering from his stupid supporters....unless, of course, his supporters have been told to ignore the rules and turn it into a rally...sh**...I wish I hadn't thought of that.

[grossproffit]

1. This should be the rule for all debates. Audience participation is idiotic.

[randome]

12. Then there's really no point to having an audience, is there?

I agree with you, it just seems pointless to have a crowd of mutes watching a televised debate.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]

[Pluvious]

39. That's exactly what Seth MacFarlane tweeted...

See link below for comments

Seth MacFarlane? @SethMacFarlane
Here's an idea: Lose the damn studio audience at the debates. No one cares about hearing their circus noises. Treat it like Kennedy/Nixon.

Sep 20, 2016, 5:13 PM

https://mobile.twitter.com/SethMacFarlane/status/778386648191164416

[calimary]

44. Circus noise. BEAUTIFUL!

Love that! Nailed it.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

53. With the R candidate being such a clown, a circus atmosphere almost seems appropriate.

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They should have people doing a flying trapeze act overhead and peanut & cotton candy sellers walking through the set hawking their goods.

I am beyond flabbergasted that it has come to this. That so many Americans a planning to vote for such a cretin as Trump. I am mortified.

[randome]

56. I know. Don't get depressed. This, too, will pass, just like Romney, just like Palin.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

57. Thanks. I sure do hope you're right!

[trof]

2. So...how, exactly, do they plan to control this?

[MadBadger]

4. It's always been that way from what I can remember

[homegirl]

41. Yes,

I don't remember any presidential debates where there was any form of audience participation. Looking forward to Donald experiencing the sound of one hand clapping. Surely that will throw him off his game of insults and ridicule.

[riversedge]

49. yes, it has been like this in the past. Oh, sure, once in a while, we hear some

applause, but it gets squashed quickly and the mods move on.

[TeamPooka]

20. peer pressure

[world wide wally]

35. Kick out anybody who shouts out.

After the first one is humiliated, others will reconsider.
Charges of harassment can also be filed. (Or something).

[Roy Rolling]

3. Yes!

This is HUUUUUGE. The mind games continue. The Clinton camp gave Mark Cuban a front row seat to psyche-out the orange Don.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. They say this every debate

and every debate it is mostly ignored.

[charlyvi]

52. Not so.

Most of the Presidential debates i've seen, not primary debates, the rules are pretty much adhered to.

[BumRushDaShow]

58. Hopefully you are watching right now

as the interruptions occur right on queue.

[JHB]

6. And if people ignore the rule... Exactly what happens?

Just what penalty can be enforced?

[Gabi Hayes]

22. concealed carry at the site?

where the f is Hofstra, anyway?

[TexasTowelie]

27. It is on Long Island.

I also read in one of the Long Island newspapers that Trump has about a 4% advantage in the polls there.

[Gabi Hayes]

28. I know....I kid......I'm a kidder

[TexasTowelie]

29. Okay. However, Long Island might be one of the few places in New York

that will be in Trump territory. I wish that Triumph could be there on Monday night to insult the Donald.

[Gabi Hayes]

30. he's done a bunch of stuff on the campaign trail, including a

special on hulu, which I think is also on youtube

love the guy

I have a DVD he put out a long time ago

....aaaannnd, isn't a lot of upstate NY very similar to the deep south in terms of its political benightedness?

[lapucelle]

51. I'm a Hillary volunteer on Long Island.

I'm going to a party-sponsored debate watching event. We're kicking off the night with a small rally (we have a permit) at Hofstra.

Trump might have supporters on Long Island, but he doesn't have an organization on the ground. I haven't been able to find any Trump or RNC sponsored events taking place on LI on Monday.

[getagrip_already]

37. It doesn't matter....

Tickets don't get distributed based on location. Hell, only 10 tickets go to horses students. Just 10, and they paid for the place!

I wouldn't worry about locals tilting the mix. The tickets aren't given out that way.

[yorkie77]

45. Long Island

I heard Nassau county is against him, Suffolk for him.

[msanthrope]

40. Jesus Christ. Caroline McCarthy wept. nt

[anamandujano]

7. Hillary's fans will obey the rules but if the deplorables cheer, they should be booed until

the moderator or others put a stop to it.

[JHB]

8. The only way to make that work:

No live audience at all.

[skylucy]

9. I like that idea.

[SunSeeker]

47. Exactly. There is no point to having a live audience if you don’t want audience reaction.

This is supposed to be about what the candidates have to say, not the audience.

[senseandsensibility]

10. Good news if enforced.

I have my doubts, but we will see.

[underpants]

11. I do too

I will not be surprised if their is a full "Idocracy" "Jerry Springer" crowd of plants.

[retrowire]

13. Just as the North Koreans have banned sarcasm

This will surely succeed as well.

[annabanana]

14. It won't work unless the studio audience is in a different room.

They should have to watch it on a remote screen on another floor.. Then they can boo and cheer to their little hearts content, and the candidates won't be able to hear them.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

15. They say that all the time

Generally, it's difficult to enforce in a larger auditorium.

[C_U_L8R]

16. Everyday directional microphones

Will keep any chatter from the peanut gallery down to a minimum.
Though it wouldn't surprise me if the networks have the crowd mic'd too,
regardless of their admonitions. Hey its showbiz after all.

[Stellar]

17. And NO teleprompter either, that'll help too.

They should check for listening devices around Donald. I don't trust their lying/cheating osses!

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

18. How about

No audience in the room at all? Put them in another room entirely, or even off site, and have them ask questions from there instead.

[Gabi Hayes]

19. Baa Baa Boo EEEEE!

[itsrobert]

21. How about Trump is placed in a cone of silence

And nobody can hear him during the debate.

[LAS14]

23. I'm kept awake at night trying to figure out..

... how your could remove someone sitting in the middle of a row in an auditorium if they refused to be quiet. Haven't got an answer yet.

[lindysalsagal]

25. Easily done, with the camera pointed to the stage. 2 minutes, max.

[bettyellen]

50. When I was in the audience for a Letterman taping they had mikes above us- and they picked up a low

Voiced wise crack I made to a friend - about the warm up comic, who sucked- and they came over within a minute and gave me a final warning that I'd be ejected if I did that again. They had given us strict instructions and much prompting to applaud when told to, but not to act up. Wasn't talking loud at all, and they got me!

[lindysalsagal]

24. If they don't mic or film the audience, it won't carry through the TV.

The network can control that. I hope it's true.

[underthematrix]

26. This has always been the case. If they're serious about it

They can mute the sound and never ever show the audience so the TV audience omly hears the debaters and moderator

[annabanana]

38. TRump would NOT be able to ignore noise from the peanut gallery..

muted or not

They'd have to be in a different room so HE couldn't hear them...

[Mike Nelson]

31. I'd get rid of...

...the audience entirely. They should have the press there, and each side can have 20 staff/family/friends. The audience cheering or booing either side takes time away from the people who need to hear the candidates speak about their positions.

[Sunlei]

32. here's 2012 debate, there is no audience noise. The republican will have to stand alone & talk.

Published on Oct 3, 2012


President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney discuss domestic policy in the first debate of the 2012 presidential election from Denver, Colorado

[skylucy]

55. Thank for this.

[druidity33]

33. Hillary voters will be respectful and quiet...

Trump fans will shout and jeer. Unfortunately to a TV audience, that may appear as if the live audience favors Trump. Hopefully they will be able to kick the troublemakers out, or at least screen really well.

[niyad]

34. I believe they have said that before, and it didn't stop the audience response. so, NOT

holding my breath.

[bucolic_frolic]

36. Trump supporters will be there

and they're going to keep quiet? Yeah.

Expect the whole thing to wind up in a brawl - literally - about 15 minutes
in and that's the end of debating.

[LiberalLovinLug]

43. Trump could use this to shut down the debate

Turn it into a zoo and then later blame it all on the "violent"Hillary supporters. Force them to shut down this first one at least. I can see that.

[oasis]

42. After each idiotic remark from Trump, there will be a significant murmur.

I'll settle for that.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

46. As others have already asked,

how can this be enforced? And even if directional mikes are used, so that the TV audience doesn't hear anything, everyone else in the room will.

Better to have no audience at all. Just the candidates, a moderator, and whatever other people are needed to operate cameras and so on.

Oh, and the primary debates should likewise be without audience.

[Mamajami]

48. I think there should be NO audience at all. That would send Trump over the edge

Why does an audience have to be present?

[bucolic_frolic]

54. Agree

I think there should be no debates, just 1.5 hours to each candidate to
answer questions from a moderator or moderator panel

The theater element that Trump is using to bolster his image is not
relevant to the presidency