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tightly referreed format. A more elaborate version of the same idea would be to allow each candidate to have a partisan panel backing him or her up which would question the opposing candidate.
This would provide a genuine intellectual and political confrontation. It would present the candidates with a real test of their ability to react under hostile forensic fire.
But most important of all, it would make the debates interesting to the general public. Not all citizens are attuned to the nuances of a well-informed reporter’s questions, but most of them can easily understand a head-tohead argument between two people who are trying to win their votes. Under those conditions even politicians usually engage in plain talk and simple sentences.
And who knows? If a way were found to make political debates interesting even our dollarconscious commercial television stations'might consideFcarrying them as,a contribution to public engtittenment.
Heaven knows, after some of the stuff they put on the air, they owe public enlightenment something!
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