Only Primary Diner has a forum worthy of the name. These are the spawning grounds of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy. Lucianne and FreeRepublic serve presidential chat laced with arsenic. You can also conduct your 2000 debates purely by e-mail on a politics listserv. The presidential candidates are beginning to acknowledge all this online campaign talk, if only halfheartedly.
Chatters ask routine questions, the candidate types back a canned response.
And if you want discussion, the PCR 2000 Forum offers that, too. It' new but growing. One very interesting online discussion space is the Iowan Caucuses Discussion Forum . Many to many versus one to many you get almost everywhere else. David Plotz is Slate 's Washington bureau chief.