Whatever these so-called "debates" really are, they're certainly not a battle of ideas in an open and neutral forum. They’re run by the disinformation arm of Obama's Reelection Committee AKA the MSM. They're set up to fool the gullible and keep the real issues as far away from Obama as the east is from the west.
They are nothing more than info-mercials with the writers of each campaign trying to come up with the most remembered one-liner.