[af_vet_rr]

Presidential candidates should stand on their own and voters should be able to trivialize things like body language, smooth talk (think Obama, Clinton, Kerry...), personal style, what they have on their IPod, what they eat, boxers or briefs, etc. If the public is on the ball, they’d be well-informed enough to see past the day before.

A lot of the public is not on the ball, and the undecideds do matter, and if you can't walk into the lion's den known as the media/debates and sell yourself and say what you believe and why you believe it and why you should be President, you won't win the undecideds over, and you'll lose.

[equaviator]

Doesn’t anyone read anything that presidential candidates write about and have published?? Debate forums aren’t the only points of access that intelligent voters would be looking for.