I personally think the debates - if handled properly - are going to have a big impact on the final outcome of the election this year. People still don't know much about Mitt Romney and he's damn hard to pin down on any issue. But he can't run from the debate moderators and the sitting president standing next to him on the stage.
That being said, the moderators CAN spend their hour throwing softballs and not asking the kinds of questions that would help the American people really understand the contrast between these two tickets.
Lawrence O'Donnell has been doing a great job pointing this out on "The Last Word." The moderators need to act like real journalists and ask some hard questions - not serve up the cocktail party standards.
So - what do you think?
Let's play a game. Ahead of the two political conventions, let's take some time and document the questions we'd like to see get asked at the debates and then circle back afterward and see how well that happened. Now is a great time to set a "question baseline" because the conventions haven't happened yet and, let's face it, the average voter is still pretty cold.
GO!!!