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McClatchy reports: "Group Pushes Debate Moderator To Ask Questions Submitted By Public."
Fresh off of the Open Debate Coalition being cited as a source of questions in the second debate, two coalition leaders met with the moderator of the next debate, Fox News' Chris Wallace.
They delivered petition signatures -- now over 20,000 strong -- urging Wallace to ask questions in tonight's debate that rose to the top of PresidentialOpenQuestions.com where 3.6 million votes were cast on over 15,800 questions. Wallace said our bottom-up questions are on his radar (and called us "very persistent," which we'll take as a compliment.)
Wallace then announced the topics he'll ask the candidates about -- including three areas in our top questions: Social Security, immigration, and the Supreme Court.
Here are three next steps we can take toward achieving our goal of making Open Debates -- where questions are submitted and voted on by the public -- the norm in American politics.
1. Watch tonight's debate at 9pm ET on PresidentialOpenQuestions.com -- and if you're on Twitter, follow us at @OpenDebate. Let's hold Wallace accountable for asking questions the public cares about.
2. Go vote on questions for New Hampshire's U.S. Senate and gubernatorial debates next week at OpenDebateQuestions.com. We announced a history-making partnership with the NH1 TV station. Half of the questions their moderators ask will come from the Top 30 voted on by the public for each race. These debates will be broadcast nationally because New Hampshire could decide which party controls the U.S. Senate and the ripple effects of the competitive governor's race could influence the next first-in-the-nation presidential primary. Go vote at OpenDebateQuestions.com.
3. If you use Twitter, continue urging Chris Wallace and his producers to ask the questions below that rose to the top of the Open Debate Coalition's voting site. Urge Trump and Clinton to answer them too.
Thanks for helping us organize debates that reflect the real concerns of Americans.
Lilia Tamm Dixon, Director
Open Debate Coalition
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