As I am on semi-vacation I haven’t followed the details closely, but here’s my guess. Byron says the chatter is between those who think the debate will be gimmicky and those who think it will be revolutionary. My guess is that where stupid it will be “revolutionary” and every where else it will be a waste of time. Here’s the thing: It’s just simply a myth that there are some powerful, incisive and well-informed questions that can’t break through the establishment (just as it’s a myth that nonvoters subscribe to radical political views and therefore don’t vote because they feel “locked out” of the system). Sure, the mainstream media doesn’t ask a lot of questions about how the Jews and Freemasons conspired to bring down the World Trade Center, but when it comes to sane questions there’s little that Youtube can provide that isn’t a staple of call-in shows and the like. For example, every time there’s some “youth forum” for candidates, do you ever hear good questions you couldn’t hear elsewhere? I think the most famous MTV townhall question was “boxers or briefs.” How does getting basically the same crowd to ask their questions via online videos suggest the quality will be that much better?