Democratic bigwigs fear debates will devolve into horror show

[MineralMan]

18. I think the debates will be pretty calm. Each candidate will

have just one minute to address each question, and 30 seconds for a rebuttal. Doing anything but going positive on your own point will waste that brief time. In one minute, you get to say maybe 120 words. Five or six sentences. Why would any candidate waste a word on saying something negative about another candidate?

I think you're going to see every candidate trying to say something memorable about his or her approach to whatever issue is raised. There's no time to do anything else in a way that will help yourself.

However, if a candidate takes a negative stance against another candidate, the results that candidate gets in the polling will also be negative for the candidate who does that.