First CNN/YouTube Debates Held

window.document.getElementById(‘post-3845’).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;A few hours ago, the first YouTube debate was held, and the final feeling is that they worked out pretty decently. 39 questions were chosen, and some of the candidates answered well, others went off on their own agenda-driven tangents; in other words, a pretty standard debate, with maybe more of a human face.
The debate opened with this request for candidates to actually answer the questions, but that was probably more wishful thinking. I loved when a YouTuber asked an obvious, direct question, and it was answered with, “I think we need to talk more about [unrelated issue]”. Politicians still don’t realize that anyone can see through those sort of answers. I’m glad the first real question, “How are you going to be any different?” was chosen, because it was one I’d noticed in the lead up to the debate, and I wasn’t […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg