Debate times and places set

[u2spirit]

http://www.debates.org/pages/news_040813.html

Jim Lehrer, Charles Gibson and Bob Schieffer to moderate

[still_one]

1. I will believe it when I see it

Charles Gibson already has a bias against Kerry...

[bryant69]

2. three debates

Don't know if that's a good sign or a bad sign.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[displacedtexan]

3. Did you read the fine print? Here's the catch, folks...

The participants in the town meeting, to be chosen by the Gallup Organization, will be undecided voters from the St. Louis, Missouri, standard metropolitan statistical area.

Gallup will have the questions ahead of time, which means that Bush* will have the questions ahead of time.

This stinks! BIG TIME!

[AmerDem]

4. I have a major problem with the second debate!

First off it will be moderated by Charlie Gibson, if I remember right, he went after Kerry one morning with a vengence clearly biased towards the shrub! Second, the citizens that will be particapating will have their question picked and reviewed prior to the debates start. These same participant will be select by none other then GALLOP! They are supposed to be voters Gallop choose to be "undecided". We all know Gallop's history on having that one poll floating around favoring shrub when no other polls show anything close to their results!

Beware, I say!







August 13, 2004

Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr., and Paul G. Kirk, Jr., co-chairmen of the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), today announced moderators for the 2004 general election debates. The moderators, and the schedule and locations for the debates (as announced on November 6, 2003), are as follows:

First presidential debate:
University of Miami
Coral Gables, FL
Thursday, September 30
Jim Lehrer
Anchor and Executive Editor, The NewsHour, PBS

Vice presidential debate:
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH
Tuesday, October 5
Gwen Ifill
Senior Correspondent, The NewsHour, and Moderator, Washington Week, PBS

Second presidential debate:
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
Friday, October 8
Charles Gibson
Co-Anchor, ABC News Good Morning America

Third presidential debate:
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ
Wednesday, October 13
Bob Schieffer
CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent, and Moderator, Face the Nation

Each debate shall begin at 9:00 p.m. EDT.


Format

The format for the debates, as announced on June 17, 2004, shall be as follows:

* Each debate shall have a single moderator and last for 90 minutes.
* In the first and third presidential debates and the vice presidential debate the candidates shall be seated with the moderator at a table.
* The first presidential debate shall focus primarily on domestic policy and the third presidential debate shall focus primarily on foreign policy. The second presidential debate shall be held as a town meeting in which citizens will pose questions to the candidates. The vice presidential debate shall cover both foreign and domestic policy topics.
* There shall be no opening statements; there shall be two-minute closing statements.
* The order of questioning and closing statements shall be determined by coin toss.
* The moderator's job in the first and third presidential debates and the vice presidential debate will be to introduce and change topics, to ensure that the participants have equal time, and to encourage some direct exchange among the candidates. The moderators will select all topics and questions.
* In the second presidential debate, the town meeting participants will pose their questions to the candidates. The town meeting participants will review their questions with the moderator before the debate for the sole purpose of avoiding duplicate questions. The participants in the town meeting, to be chosen by the Gallup Organization, will be undecided voters from the St. Louis, Missouri, standard metropolitan statistical area.
* The moderators will have discretion to ask follow-up questions in all debates.
* Each debate shall take place before a live audience.