“The (presidential) debates are part of the unconscionable fraud that our political campaigns have become. Here is a means to present to the American people a rational exposition of the major issues that face the nation, and the alternate approaches to their solution. Yet the candidates participate only with the guarantee of a format that defies meaningful discourse. They should be charged with sabotaging the electoral process.”
-Walter Cronkite, 1988
In 2022, inspired by the late Walter Cronkite we created and launched the Solution Studio, a forum that guarantees meaningful discourse.
America’s Got Talent Judges
MSU Denver Solution Studio Panelists
In a Solution Studio forum candidates are invited, one at a time, to present and defend their solutions to some of America's big challenges in front of a panel of college students.
It borrows from the familiar genre of talent-show television, e.g. America’s Got Talent, that young Americans have grown up with and is a project of New Voice Strategies.
It offers a new and unique means for voters to scrutinize which candidates have solutions, and which have only sound bites, slogans and slurs.
Think of it as a juried panel of civic minded young Americans instead of television celebrities.