A consortium of left and right activists have called on the Obama and McCain campaigns to drop the rules for this coming Wednesday’s debate to allow for actual debate. At minimum, they request the host, Bob Schieffer, be allowed to ask follow-up questions “so the public can be fully informed about specific positions.”
Today at work, I was talking with a coworker, and he mentioned he could only stomach watching about twenty minutes of the debate this past Tuesday because neither candidate actually answered the question they were given. My coworker, I’m sure, is not the only one who feels this way, and this likely plays into the disillusionment that many voters have toward politics. Candidates can do themselves a favor while doing the voters and American democracy a favor by allowing for actual debate. Time to lose the rules that lose voters from the process.
