9th District Debate in Jasper

Baron Hill, Mike Sodrel, and Eric Schansberg met in Jasper at the Vincennes University campus there on Tuesday evening to face off. There were plenty of cameras, but no non-media recording and no lie detectors.

The debate was impactful and revealing, at least for those that saw it (which is probably a distinct minority of voters; likely Baron’s intention from the start).

Your humble correspondent was present, and I liveblogged the entire thing. I didn’t have a chance to post it until now, because I typed it into a Word file rather than attempt to post and continually update that post live (too big a chance for an error or something resulting in the browser or the internet eating my work).

The debate had two segments. For the first (televised) hour, the candidates were each on stage individually for twenty minutes with a panel of three questioners. During the second hour, the candidates shared the stage and took questions from the audience. The audience was not friendly to Baron Hill; the questions were not to his liking (which was a distinct change from a number of the panel questions, which were frequently dainty softballs).

I have four posts linked after the fold about this (one for each candidate’s segment and one for the audience question period).

(Read about each candidates Q&A after the leap)
Baron Hill Panel Q&A

Mike Sodrel Panel Q&A

Eric Schansberg Panel Q&A

Audience Q&A (all candidates)