Former Obama And Romney Advisers Join Up To Make The Presidential Debates Less Terrible

BuzzFeed - Debates "will not remain a major cultural point unless the way that the debates are delivered to voters is consistent with how voters are increasingly accustomed to getting their news." Win McNamee / Getty Images WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senior-level political operatives is recommending broad changes to the way the U.S. holds presidential debates, warning that unless the debates become democratized and less dependent on traditional media, they will become increasingly irrelevant. Formally called the Annenberg Debate Reform Working Group of the University of Pennsylvania, the group recommended a series of core changes to democratizing the debates through a formal process the soliciting of topics, expanding the pool of moderators, and increasing access to the debates through new media. The group, which met over the course of about a year-and-a-half, included Democratic debate veteran Robert Barnett; Beth Myers, Mitt Romne