[ClearCase_guy]

A terrible format. Hope they don't use it again. But if they do, they should handle it like a chess clock. You are allotted an amount of time. Perhaps 8 minutes total. While you talk, your clock runs. If you answer one question for 8 minutes, that's your time, and your microphone gets unplugged. If you choose to give 30 second responses, you can field 16 questions.

That would be fair to everyone and make each candidate responsible for their own use of air-time. But since it involves fairness and personal responsibility, the leftist media probably wouldn't consider this method.

[P-40]

If you choose to give 30 second responses, you can field 16 questions.

But then the candidates wouldn't be able to give those long, rambling statements that sound important but don't really say anything. :)

[Gelato]

Interesting idea. I like that.