I’d be perfectly happy to let the larger number of candidates stay in, but have each individual debate not include so many people. There are 56 possible matchups of two candidates; at the rate we’ve been going (with two Dem debates just three days apart), we could probably get through ALL those matchups by December. Give each pair a topic that seems partcularly appropriate to drawing differences between them — like, give Obama/Hillary “our relationship with Pakistan”. Give “Edwards/Hillary” healthcare. Some topics can repeat.
Or, we could just draw up a list of topics, and interview each candidate in depth, for an hour, on just that topic.
But these idiotic “forums” with 90-second answers? They stink. Even the one with the most aggressive, unfiltered questions — the YearlyKos forum — was largely dull.
