*Easier access to ballots and debates by minority-party candidates.
Broadcasters and the parties settled the timing of the debates by drawing lots.
Clinton won all three debates by outwitting Trump, luring him into one trap after another.
Newt Gingrich has managed to steal the show during previous debates by railing against the media and liberals.
Most real debates, by House standards, are divided equally between opponents and supporters of a measure, usually from opposite parties.
We can think better about them and can even have more informed debates by learning new facts.
While he impressed at the debates by defying expectations with his brevity, his presidential campaign foundered and ended quickly.
Jamie Fly, executive director of the Foreign Policy Initiative, said Mr. Cain's answer was further argument for additional foreign policy debates by the candidates.
Maybe this is a sign of the waning influence of newspapers during the first British national election campaign to feature televised debates by party leaders.
The Bachmann campaign said the e-mail showed "the liberal mainstream media elites are manipulating the Republican debates by purposely suppressing our conservative message".
