There's a bit of difference between your online meetings and vying for POTUS. Perry would be giving up a lot to appear remotely. No candidate would ever do such a thing.
Wait a minute here, 99.999 percent of the audience is watching this remotely electronically on the tube.
When questions are asked of Perry, they could just switch to his live feed.
What's the problem with that??
Any candidate, Perry, Romney, Santorum - whoever - who is not physically present with the rest gets a perception as “less than” the others who are there.
I’m not sure how to put my “feeling” into words; but I bet a dollar that every political geek worth his salt would never allow such a thing for his candidate.
But, I could be wrong.