That is why I chose the phrase "party leader." A minority leader's office is still gonna be more exciting than the average Senate office. If you're a freshman Senator, you get a lot of mayors from your state and various lobbyists stopping by. If you're a party leader, either party, you get Angelina Jolie.
Which also doesn’t really answer how she won the supposed lottery for front row tickets, or how her question got asked, or why her other questions were discarded in favor of the take off on “Boxer or Briefs”.
Is it breaking news that the debates are stage-managed, if not staged? They screen the questions, because they don't want t spend the whole hour talking about Yucca Mountain -- something very important to Nevadans, but not in the top twenty for the rest of America.
To the point that the moderators are correcting on the fly the questions the “normal folks” in the audience “should” be asking?