Second Debate: Town hall meeting, Attendees selected by Gallup

[liberal N proud]

The second debate is to be held as a town hall meeting, with questions posed by an equal number of "soft" supporters of each candidate chosen by the Gallup Organization.

That debate "shall not be limited by topic and shall include an equal number of questions related to foreign policy and homeland security on the one hand and economic and domestic policy on the other," the agreement says.

Sounds like the question will be scripted, giving shrub the chance to get versed by Carl on the answers
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/20/presidential.debates/index.html

[sui generis]

1. why Gallup? they have proven to be pretty biased

especially with the post RNC polling, where they defended polling higher numbers of likely republican voters than democrat and publishing a bogus statistic.

Gallup is a bad choice.

[unfrigginreal]

2. Gallup?!

Jeebus, another indication that our Party can't recognize friend from foe.

[cthrumatrix]

4. you have got to be kidding me....somebody call the Kerry campaign

[ClintonTyree]

7. Too late.............

it's a done deal.

[qb]

3. Would this be the same "Gallup" whose October 2000 poll

innacurately favored Bush voters by 13%?
Oh great.

[yardwork]

5. Ok, so Kerry will have to answer questions from a bunch of Bush-supporters

Kerry will still do fine. He can answer hostile questions. Bush can't answer friendly questions.

[Inland]

8. Really. Its Bush who has to game the questions, not Kerry.

[papau]

10. Nope - real folks do not ask questions directly - they submit questions to

moderator - Charlie Gibson - who then rephrases them into softballs for Bush-

and into "have you stop beating your wife" format for Kerry.

[in_cog_ni_to]

6. The RW Gallup?

I KNEW there was NO WAY IN HELL they would let that idiot go before a REAL group of undecided voters. What a joke.

[ClintonTyree]

9. Yep..................

scripted questions, scripted answers. This is the only type of "debate" that the Cons would agree to with their mentally challenged candidate. Anything else would be "unfair" to Dumbya.

[dansolo]

11. Probably filled with "undecideds"

I think we are going to get a number of undecideds who really aren't.