Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
These group debates illustrate why Senator Clinton was foolish to even think of conspiring with Edwards to reduce the field of debaters. With so many other candidates, these debates resemble nothing so much as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. There aren’t enough interpersonal exchanges for anyone to seriously lay a glove on Senator Clinton, and while she was gifted at seeming a victim in Senatorial debates when she was attacked, that is not a strategy that would work in an actual Presidential debate (one with a manageable number of candidates)...it would make her seem too soft to be Commander in Chief.
Edwards is the only one to have a national one-on-one debate, and he wiped the floor with Cheney. His best characteristic was the ability to be angry or vicious with a smile. As long as the field remains this large, Senator Clinton is the greatest beneficiary, and former Senator Edwards suffers the most.
