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A Question For The Candidates
Videogum — ... Tonight the two candidates for President of the United States will meet in the second televised debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, DUH. The debate will be held in a town hall style format, where the candidates will answer questions in front of a live audience of "uncommitted" voters (take your time, guys, you're doing great). Americans sent in more than six million questions for Barack Obama and John McCain via the internet, although only 15 to 20 will make it to air. ...

Timothy Karr: Citizens Panel Mixed on 'Town Hall' Format, Wanted Brokaw to Do More to Challenge the Spin
Huffington Post Entertainment Blog — ... Brokaw selected some questions from audience members and from more than 6 million e-mail and Internet submissions. But a large portion of the questions were his own, and at times the audience members seemed more a backdrop to Brokaw than protagonists in the debate. Republican McCain has long insisted that he prefers the town hall format for political debates. And, according to the panel, his supporters share his preference. Almost half the McCain partisans (48% vs. 24% for Barack Obama supporters) judged the town hall format in Nashville to be superior to the ...