I wish to congratulate Candy Crowley for doing a remarkable job within the confines of the format. Each of them would give short shrift to an answer and then recite unrelated prepared speeches which we've all heard many times before. If you were looking for one new thought
you must have been sadly disappointed, as I was.
While Obama certainly won on substance he did not win on style because of the format.
I do not like the Town Hall format, because I do not know how the audience was chosen and how the questioners were chosen. Many years ago when I was President of the Riverdale Community Council we had a School Board election program. In order to make it fair
anyone could come to the meeting. The questioners were given a card and told to put their question on it. Then we put all the questions in a large drum. We had different people from the audience pick the questions out of the drum. This way the answerer never knew who was asking the question.
What happened to a real question on Medicare and Medicaid? What happened to a real question on reforming our education system?
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I disagree with your review. I thought that Obama was excellent and provided lots ot substance. He won on every question. He was appropriately agressive and specific. Romney made a food out of himself, reciting tired old generalities. It appeared that Romney had paid off the characters who asked the questions and knew all of them beforehand. It didn't do him any good because he was NOT prepared for Obama's retort. Obama was so specific that when I relisten to parts of the debate, I get more and more enlightened.
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