Keep Your Eyes on the Flashing Lights Please

Every four years America is dragged into the Presidential debates. The debates are the last phase of a campaign that seems to span a lifetime. We began hearing about knock out punches and game changers but they are rarely seen during the debates. The effects debates have on presidential elections are very small. All they do is to affirm views or ease concerns we have about the candidates.
The concept of a debate typically involves two sides presenting opposing ideals reflecting different views. One form of debate setting is known as Town Hall. These kind of debate meetings work well in a community when it's citizens are complaining to their city council members about the pot holes in their streets that need filling or their trash rates going up $1.50 a month. Those meetings are made up of the most active and engaged citizens in the community not the uninformed and disengaged citizens who are given a free ticket to a Presidential Town Hall debate. Citizen at a Presidential Town Hall debate are suppose to be undecided in their presidential choice. That requirement alone should demand the debates take place in Hollywood. Anyone who is still undecided after eight years of George W Bush, two foreign quagmires and the worst economic meltdown in 70 years surly gets their mail delivered to an address in the make believe world of Hollywood. Those flashing lights at this weeks Presidential Town Hall debate should have been labeled first grade, second grade and third grade because that seemed to be IQ level of the undecided voter's questions.
Lights, Camera and Action! Spielberg would have gotten much more out of the debate's cast of characters so we might as well move the last debate to Hollywood where almost every decided or undecided actor knows how to pay attention to flashing lights.