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3. Having watched the two previous debates, all I can see is that the format does not work

Reply to merrily (Original post)

Sun Oct 19, 2014, 07:35 PM

Oct 2014

or they need a 2 hour debate. With one hour equally distributed, you have as many time for Scott Lively's homophobic diatribes than for Coakley and Baker. The debates ended up being five stump speech one after the other, with no real debate. Baker has been able to pose as a moderate guy in everything including economy and a good manager (hello Big Dig) with very few opportunities to being counter attacked.

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Stonehill debate cancelled, apparently because Indies were included. [View all] merrily Oct 2014 OP

Wow shenmue Oct 2014 #1

Sadly, not surprising, either. merrily Oct 2014 #2

Having watched the two previous debates, all I can see is that the format does not work Mass Oct 2014 #3

The answers to that may be to change the format, use time limits and stop merrily Oct 2014 #4