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Debates are a waste of airtime- watching the candidates answer the loaded questions of the hosts in the mainstream media, who have given up all pretense of neutrality, is brain-numbing and/or infuriating. Most candidates lack even the most rudimentary conversation skills, talking over and interrupting each other, taking childish jabs at each other.

The one thing most have forgotten is how to steer the conversation from the "loaded" (or often stupid) questions; people seem to treat the media as if they're under oath and HAVE to answer their questions. For example, when Scott Walker was asked by a reporter for his opinion on the Confederate Flag controversy following a shooting last year, he told the reporter that the important thing was to grieve with and support the victims of the shooting. When RISP Supt. O'Donnell was asked a loaded question about the racially-motivated killing of two NYPD officers last year, he told the reporter that the RI contingent of officers was going to NYC to pay their respects and support the families of the slain officers, and when someone was ready to have an honest conversation about race relations, he'd be happy to participate- such responses give the media nowhere to go. It's like the old Groucho Marx "Do you still beat your wife?" question- there's no right answers to many of the questions the media asks, and they act as if they are owed an answer.