Nine Democratic presidential candidates met over the weekend in South Carolina for their first debate. One one TV station in the U.S. [Washington, D. C.] aired it. And the newspaper media isn't any better--the NY Times allotted something like 6 column inches to the event.
This has always cracked me up about America: people get all teary-eyed at the National Anthem and the flag and would "follow our President" where ever he chose to go. But for all that supposed love of country, Americans are terribly ill-informed and usually don't have a clue as to who they are voting for. Democracy requires much more than that. Hell. America, if it's to survive, requires much more than that.