The League of Women Voters forum held Monday, Oct. 22 may have lacked the fireworks of the presidential debate that followed, but what it lacked in pyrotechnics it more than made up in civility and discussion of issues, not personalities.

The procedure was simple. A member of a committee assembled by the LOWV would read questions, either ones of their own, or from those submitted by audience members. Each candidate would take a turn answering first in an allotted time frame before yielding the floor to the next candidate.