Ask open-ended questions, and follow up wherever the trail leads.

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Ask open-ended questions because these elicit a more descriptive response.

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Not only did he ask too many open-ended questions that allowed the candidates to wander off onto tangents that were not part of the agenda, he rarely reinforced the need for Romney or Obama to go back to answer the original questions.

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Ask your sources open-ended questions.

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