The Online Debate for CD-2

It happened first with the Boulder City Council race and is now going to happen with the CD-2 Democratic primary. Joan, Jared, & Will have all agreed to participate in an on-line debate. As far as I know, and I've talked to a lot of people across the country on this topic, we remain the only location that has done this.

So first, a big thank you to all three candidates. This is bleeding-edge new and all three said that of course they would do this. So kudos to them for participating. If you meet any of them, tell them thank you.

And now on to the details. The structure of this debate is designed to allow all of the candidates to "talk" at the same time while keeping with the debate framework where they are given the question and must answer immediately and in a limited time frame. Here's how it will work:

1. A question is emailed to all the candidates and posted to this blog.
   1. Therefore, you will first see just the question and then about 5 minutes later, if you refresh your browser, you will see the candidate answers added, and the next question.
2. Each candidate must respond within 5 minutes, answering on their own, and in under 300 words.
3. Answers are emailed to me and I then add all of the answers to the question at the same time and post that to the blog. So every candidate answers before seeing the answers of the other candidates.
4. The next question is emailed/posted.
5. Candidates get a maximum of 300 words and 5 paragraphs for each answer.
6. Each candidate will have no help in what they write.
   1. Candidates can copy & paste from the internet, their campaign docs, etc as long as what they are reading existed before the debate started.
7. Candidates can write more on any/all questions on their blog or website and send me the url to it later and I will then add that link at the end of their answer. They cannot change their debate answer afterwards but they can use the link to your page to say more or explain what they really wanted to say.
8. No urls, formatting, etc in the answers.

The date & time has not been set yet but we are shooting for late January - after the New Hampshire primary and before the precinct caucuses.

If you would like to submit a question, please click here and enter it.

Update: I have created an Official Page for the debate where I will keep what is going on up to date. So please refer to that page for the latest news on the debate.