I personally think that this is one of the dumbest ideas for a debate in a long time. There are so many other venues for debate. I assume that this is in an attempt to get 'young people' to gain some insight into politics, but all that we are going to get is well formulated responses from each candidates representatives. Unlike an actual debate the nominees will be able to take several minutes to compose their answers and check against previous statements and their advisers.

What does this have to do with technology???

They are using a new communication medium to have the debate.

The debate topics were supposed to be focused on tech issues.