Look where my hand was.
It's a "Town Hall" format which MANY believe might be the most disastrous format for Trump, irrespective of his seeming downward trend in most voting metrics.
So, what the hell is a "Town Hall" debate anyway? I don't really know to a certainty, and don't crap me now, you don't know either ... so let's fix that.
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The upcoming presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will be a town-hall format, which means half the questions will come from uncommitted voters in the debate hall, while the other half will be influenced by voters' concerns on social media.
The town-hall participants were selected and screened by Gallup, the research and polling organization, but it's the moderators -- CNN's Anderson Cooper and ABC's Martha Raddatz -- who will choose which of those participants get to ask their questions.
Janet Brown, the executive director for the Commission on Presidential Debates, said the moderators would select the questions "with the goal of maximizing the number of topics covered." There will be 40 participants in the audience, she said, and time for roughly eight audience members to ask questions.
Beyond that, the debate will follow a familiar format: The candidates will each have two minutes to respond to a question and there will be an additional minute for the moderator to facilitate further discussion.
The town-hall participants were selected and screened by Gallup, the research and polling organization, but it's the moderators -- CNN's Anderson Cooper and ABC's Martha Raddatz -- who will choose which of those participants get to ask their questions.
Janet Brown, the executive director for the Commission on Presidential Debates, said the moderators would select the questions "with the goal of maximizing the number of topics covered." There will be 40 participants in the audience, she said, and time for roughly eight audience members to ask questions.
Beyond that, the debate will follow a familiar format: The candidates will each have two minutes to respond to a question and there will be an additional minute for the moderator to facilitate further discussion.
The town hall will begin at 9:00pm EST, will last for 90 minutes with no commercial breaks, and will be on a dozen or so channels. You pal Don Tiny politely suggests PBS or CSPAN.
The debate may not be real, but all indications suggest it will be spectacular.
Trump brought in three women who claim to have had sex with Bill Clinton.