[ambrose]

The "questions in advance" line is a canard. In truth, this may be the toughest debate format I've seen in recent memory. According to Weintraub, there is going to be a lot of Lincoln-Douglas back and forth under this format. In other words, the candidate cannot give a canned speech and then pass over to the next candidate.

[FairOpinion]

The "questions in advance" line is a canard. In truth, this may be the toughest debate format I've seen in recent memory. According to Weintraub, there is going to be a lot of Lincoln-Douglas back and forth under this format. In other words, the candidate cannot give a canned speech and then pass over to the next candidate.

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Thanks for the information. So who are the real cowards?

[cookcounty]

If it's followed by give-and-take, "canned questions" is the best approach.
It pushes the infantile press out of the role of "crisis-creation" by asking questions deigned to entrap. In our sad history of "Presidential" debates we keep going to a format that rewards the guy whose only skill is fast-talking before a camera ---that's how we got x42.