Supported by Taiwan Media Watch, we conducted a content analysis of nine television political discussion programs during the prime time to evaluate their performance on issues relating with Taiwan’s nine-in-one local election, which took place on November 29, 2014. After four months of observation, the study concludes with the following discoveries: (1) Despite the unprecedented wide categories of elected offices, Taipei City mayoral election grabbed predominant attention in most programs. Particularly, the focus of discussion centered on the horserace between two arch-rival candidates. (2) The participants mainly came from the core political system and the expert system, with a majority of the latter consisted of journalists and editors. In comparison, members from the civil society played a very marginal role as participants. (3) Subjects relating with uncovering the implicit power games among the political elites and the tactics of campaign took a lion’s share on most programs’ issue lists, while the candidate’s political views and platforms only won scant attention. These discoveries are evaluated by reference to Jurgen Habermas’s two indicators concerning “rational deliberative procedure”: the self-regulating political discourse and the feedback between an informed elite and the responsive civil society.