Bloomberg, ABC Propose McCain/Obama NY Debate

clipped from abcnews.go.com New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and ABC News have invited Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain to participate in a 90-minute, primetime town hall meeting to be broadcast live from Federal Hall in New York City. Both Obama, D-Ill., and McCain, R-Ariz., have indicated a willingness to participate in such a forum -- unprecedented in the history of modern presidential campaigns.

It'll be interesting to see how the campaigns respond to this. It was McCain who proposed a series of 'townhall' debates, but ABC's proposal wasn't what he had in mind. "I don't think we need any big media-run production, no process question from reporters, no spin rooms," McCain said.

Obama's camp indicated they'd be open to the idea, but were non-commital.