it was a bad calculation on their part but had not the bush campaign insisted that mr. perot be admitted to the debate. he would not have been. and since then we have not had either of the two major party monopoly party candidates or campaigns that have felt sufficiently tlestened or -- threatened or se sig enough can't advantage to see something other societies do as a matter of course and that is to believe that more ideas, more voices particularly in a campaign for the highest off the land is better rather than fewer and more limited voices and we have not had any openness whatsoever. and consequently we get what we get. we get for example six hours of debates in the last presidential campaign in which the following word was mentioned by my count one time. the word was the constitution. it was mentioned one time in passing. i think by senator biden in the vice presidential debate there. is no discussion in these campaigns or in these so-called debates of the constitution of such things as the federalist papers. now i grants you there are many more exciting tree tease out t