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If you were the "Presidential Debate Czar"...

If you were the "Presidential Debate Czar", how would your debates differ from current and recent debates?

Questions would not be so generalized and cut off time would be just that.

More specific questions for instance would be: 'when it comes to American labor, what will you do to improve the standing of labor unions in this country?' And something like; 'do you believe that a military solution in the Middle East is the best option'.
 
If you were the "Presidential Debate Czar", how would your debates differ from current and recent debates?

No one would participate in my debate, but I'd do the following differently:

1. Don't give participants the questions ahead of time.
2. Keep the questions simple, one topic at a time.
3. Gather a group of 5 individuals with different backgrounds and make it their job to listen and determine when a candidate wanders too off topic and needs to be stopped. Give them all a switch that can be toggled back and forth. The state of their switch (toggled or not) is hidden to everyone but when all their switches are indicating that the response is off-topic the speaker is cut off. These individuals are hidden from the debate participants and the audience though their identities can be known.
4. Use questions to highlight values differences and similarities among participants. Don't ask for plans or agenda's; instead, ask for why's and reasoning behind plans and agendas. Then, ask participants to provide the other side to their own and others' responses.
 
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