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Related: About this forumQuestion about the debate set-up
Will they each have a set number of minutes to answer questions without interruption; or will there be back-and-forth debate between the candidates and freedom to interrupt and speak over each other?
I hope it's the former, of course.
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Question about the debate set-up (Original Post)
pnwmom
Sep 2016
OP
That sounds like it it just literally four questions? Way to lower the bar for Don.
bettyellen
Sep 2016
#6
So have the four (4) topics been announced? Trump will try to monopolize the 11 minutes x 4. . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Sep 2016
#7
RKP5637
(67,030 posts)1. I was searching, can't seem to find much except RW crap. n/t
forgotmylogin
(7,496 posts)2. I'm sure they're not supposed to interrupt
But I'm sure Don will disregard that. Usually I think it's timed statement-rebuttal-response. It rarely goes that way.
underpants
(182,271 posts)3. It's gong to be something to watch Teump work with a silent crowd
That's IF he doesn't have plants there to turn it into an episode of "Springer".
Imagine "Friends" without a laugh track (which is on YouTube).
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)4. Per the Commission on Presidential Debates:
First presidential debate (September 26, 2016, Wright State University, Dayton, OH)
The debate will be divided into six time segments of approximately 15 minutes each on major topics to be selected by the moderator and announced at least one week before the debate.
The moderator will open each segment with a question, after which each candidate will have two minutes to respond. Candidates will then have an opportunity to respond to each other. The moderator will use the balance of the time in the segment for a deeper discussion of the topic.
Commission on Presidential Debates Announces Format for 2016 General Election Debates
http://www.debates.org/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=60&cntnt01origid=27&cntnt01detailtemplate=newspage&cntnt01returnid=80
The debate will be divided into six time segments of approximately 15 minutes each on major topics to be selected by the moderator and announced at least one week before the debate.
The moderator will open each segment with a question, after which each candidate will have two minutes to respond. Candidates will then have an opportunity to respond to each other. The moderator will use the balance of the time in the segment for a deeper discussion of the topic.
Commission on Presidential Debates Announces Format for 2016 General Election Debates
http://www.debates.org/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=60&cntnt01origid=27&cntnt01detailtemplate=newspage&cntnt01returnid=80
csziggy
(34,119 posts)5. Except they've changed the location: Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
http://www.debates.org/
Someone else on DU mentioned that there was some problem with security at the original selection. Hofstra was used in the past, is more convenient to New York, and closer to the airports.
Someone else on DU mentioned that there was some problem with security at the original selection. Hofstra was used in the past, is more convenient to New York, and closer to the airports.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)6. That sounds like it it just literally four questions? Way to lower the bar for Don.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,773 posts)7. So have the four (4) topics been announced? Trump will try to monopolize the 11 minutes x 4. . . nt