The Second Presidential Debate Will Try Something New

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

"Viewers unhappy with the questions asked at Monday night’s debate will have a shot to weigh in before Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton meet again on October 9: For the first time, the networks producing the town-hall style debate have agreed to accept questions voted on through the internet."

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/in-debate-two-the-questions-are-on-the-ballot/501791/

IMO, this isn't going to end well ... for Trump.

Opening up questions to the internet is kind of like throwing an all-you-can eat buffet for a hungry pack of bears.

[onehandle]

1. 'How many mistresses have you had vs. how many wives?'

'And since your current temporary wife was both, feel free to count her twice.'

[Agnosticsherbet]

2. Check out the questions. Most of them are right wing dog whistles.

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[Hortensis]

14. Lots of good ones, but both kinds are REASON TO GO VOTE!

Just invested some time, and thanks, Cage. "Invested" because there are a lot of them already.

* Many available on same topics, so can hit a bunch in chosen categories to push them,
such as climate change or income distribution.

* Important to READ the brief description to find out if it's real or pushing a right-wing agenda.

* Can't undo a choice, so read the descriptions. Watch out for HRC-attack questions.

[Renew Deal]

3. "Will you legalize marijuana?" "Are there aliens?"

"Do you commit to making cats the national pet?"

[rock]

7. That naturally makes me want to ask

"Will the wall be tall enough to keep out the aliens from outer-space?"

[Renew Deal]

9. lol

[NobodyHere]

12. Will it be made of diamondium or diamondillium?

[rock]

13. I don't know

Which one is tallest?

[apnu]

4. This is an invitation for trolling.

Both for Trump and Hillary. For Hillary, every question will be Clinton Foundation, Benghazi, or Emails. Every single fucking one.

[yeoman6987]

5. How about discussing issues next time. That'd be nice.

[Kingofalldems]

11. Upset about something?

[BSdetect]

6. Looks like the Repgnants are flooding these questions.

Going to be quite biased if they take these votes as indicators.

[C Moon]

8. I'm guessing it will be Benghazi and email questions. Probably lots of RW orgainizing going on.

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

10. I hope that

I hope that the moderators will be able to see and weed out the biased questions. I'm also expecting some script kiddie from the depths of Reddit's alt-right hellhole to make a bot that will vote for a single question a million times.

In rating a bad idea on a scale of 1 to 10, this rates about a -87.

[LaydeeBug]

15. There is not a single hard ball for Trump amongst the questions. Not one. nt

[csziggy]

16. Since so many are right wing questions DUers should go and vote for the ones we want!

You can vote on as many questions as you want:

https://presidentialopenquestions.com