By the same principle that we could bring people in touch with more candidates simply by giving them a centralized forum on the Internet, we could also provide them with an audiovisual forum via a consolidated candidates’ videocassette. You could check one out from your local Blockbuster the same as any movie.

If there were six candidates in a primary, we could give each of them, say, 20 minutes of tape time.

We should let them say whatever they want, without any complicated rules or formats to be agreed upon. For rebuttals and counterarguments and so forth, voters could simply be referred to a consolidated candidates’ Web site—where the time and space to challenge and argue and rebut would be virtually infinite.