No formal debates for about a month, supposedly. The SuperPac ads will undoubtedly fill the vacuum, and the Sunday news shows will likely feature the candidates most weekends. I find the latter preferable anyway. It really must get awkward and irritating to have to stand up on a stage, all in a row looking like game show contestants and fodder for Saturday Night Live. The field may narrow post-Florida primary, but formal debates will continue through the spring. If that is so, I would prefer to see one similar to the debate hosted by the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation. Some of the questions at that one were a bit too contrived and slanted, but even then the questions overall were more substantive than those offered by many debate moderators from the media. I would love to see one on foreign policy/national security hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and moderated by Fareed Zakaria. I guess the Council on Foreign Relations would rile up the conspiracy theorists too much, not worth it.
Speaking of the CFR, or more specifically its flagship publication, Foreign Affairs, I'm wondering if, as was done in 2008, the major candidates will each write an article laying out foreign policy ideas and priorities. I need to dig them up, but I believe it was still during the primary stage that the 2008 articles were published.
Looking forward to the Florida polls.....
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