Cool. I have trouble watching them because it's primarily a "how
   do you handle pressure?" thing. Poised and ready? Flummoxed and
   baffled? Did your homework or scrambling? Yet most of the things
   that they discuss with such fervor are precisely the things that
   can't really do anything about as president.   I'm chronically
   independent. I look for the 3rd party if there is one. When I
   was 8, I rooted for this guy they called "dark horse" - I didn't
   know what they meant. It was "John Anderson" I think. I like
   that he was the underdog. Then H. Ross Perot. Voted for him.
   Pissed a lot of ppl off on both teams. So, I'm hoping for a 3rd
   choice.   Yeah - he says everything right. But then again, this
   is Internet. Internet also wanted Ron Paul a few times; but I
   guess the same people who wanted Ron Paul either didn't vote, or
   the presence of support online was far smaller than the actual
   real world support. Confirmation bias is impossible to avoid. I
   know their powers as President are extremely limited; our
   marvelous checks and balances system works REALLY really well
   for that. So to me, it doesn't matter much who the figurehead
   is. I mean, it does a little, but not a whole lot.