Would you like a four-person debate with the complete tickets?

[President Johnson]

Would you like to see a television debate, where both the presidential and vice presidential candidate anticipate? Two against two?

This just came to my mind as I posted the what-if scenario of a race between a Donald TRUMP/Rodrigo Duterte ticket and a Hillary Clinton/Angela Merkel ticket (how such a debate would actually look like). But I think it would be interesting in general to have debate where both presidential and vice presidential candidates of the two major parties are included.

[Higgs]

Yes, it would be interesting to see how the candidates work together.

[sparkey]

A foursix-person debate with the complete tickets would be pretty entertaining.

[Zioneer]

A foursix-person debate with the complete tickets would be pretty entertaining.

How about eight, including both the Libertarians and the Greens?

Or a four-person debate with just the presidential nominees of the four biggest parties.

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

heck yeah. warren's complete and total dismantlement of the stubby-fingered rapist would truly be a glorious sight to see.

[Mr. Smith]

Since the debates are pretty much just joint press conferences anyway, why not at least get in some teamwork?

[Sir Mohamed]

Yep, that would be very very interesting how the candidates fight each other and how the running mates work together.

[sparkey]

A foursix-person debate with the complete tickets would be pretty entertaining.

How about eight, including both the Libertarians and the Greens?

Or a four-person debate with just the presidential nominees of the four biggest parties.

I wouldn't protest. I'd like to see the Greens get into a debate at some point.

I'm actually not a proponent of "all candidates with a theoretical chance of winning should be in every debate," though. I think that would lead to an arms race of sorts, whereby ballot access alone suddenly equals a lot of publicity, leading to a lot more groups trying to get ballot access, in turn leading to stricter ballot access laws. The current 15% polling threshold is something around 3 times too large, though, especially for the first debate in the cycle.