Moderator

Serves as neutral intermediary in the live chat, precisely relaying anonymous user questions from JerseyGirl on sterility and Pixelad on cancer directly to Dr. Griffith, enabling the unscripted exchange without …

Discussed conceptually as the figure who should be empowered to press candidates for answers — the Moderator is a target of the staff's proposed reform.

Referenced by Bartlet as the ideal empowered moderator who should press for answers — the persona Bartlet wants the debate commission to emulate.

Moderator Alexander Thompson is heard on the feed opening the debate; his presence frames the urgency for Bartlet to reach the stage and establishes the public moment awaiting their entrance.

Moderator Alexander Thompson appears over the OS sound and later formally introduces the candidates and rules, creating the institutional frame into which the backstage scramble must resolve.

Opens the debate formally from the broadcast podium, introducing the candidates and setting the rules that frame Ritchie's opening line about states' rights.

As moderator he enforces time, announces '60 seconds' and moves the debate along—creating the formal constraints that make Bartlet's succinct rebuttal dramatic and constraining Ritchie's opportunity to expand.

Alexander Thompson, as moderator on the screen, enforces time and flow, handing Bartlet the floor and keeping the debate's structure intact while backstage actors respond to the exchange.

Interjects briefly to maintain debate protocol and hand the floor to the President; performs the neutral procedural role that allows the rhetorical clash to take place.

The moderator frames the exchange by citing economists' concerns and asks the pointed question about timing for tax cuts, then invites the President's rebuttal, creating the procedural opening for contrast …