All That Other Stuff

Matthew Yglesias has a good post lamenting that the "campaigns keep talking about the same very narrow set of things over and over again. " Well, I think they are the important things, but a broader dialogue would be appreciated by this political nerd.

It's worth reading if you have the time, and some of the comments are pretty great too.

What I would like to see is have the next series of debates reflect these issues. Perhaps an hour-long debate... the first half-hour devoted to a variety of key issues; the remaining half-hour devoted solely to one of these issues (one for every debate). That'd be better than the current pundit-fueled format, but is unlikely. So I guess we'll have to break down and actually read the stuff they put up on their websites.