I LIKE THIS APPROACH TO THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES:  Stuart Rothenberg has a modest proposal, “How to Fix an Unfair Presidential Debate System.”  The Fox News and CNN approach to handling the large field of candidates is to limit debate participation to the “top 10” candidates, as evidenced by various polls.  But this does block out many good candidates out, particularly those without wide name recognition.

Rothenberg’s proposal?  “The obvious answer is to divide the field in half, randomly assigning individual hopefuls to one of the two debates. Of course, not everyone will like the group he or she is in, and the makeup of each group would determine the particular dynamic of that debate.”

Sounds fair to me.