Debate, most of the important work has already been done. It is informative to watch, but it is not necessarily the real business being done. Its actually not rational for most voters to spend a lot of time informing themselves about politics. Because most voters have complicated lives. Informing yourself about politics it takes a lot of time for very little reward. I find it rewarding to study politics because i find it fascinating. But the probability of one voter casting the pivotal vote in an election is pretty much less than the probability of getting struck by lightning. So, its not really rational to invest a lot of time learning about politics unless you enjoy learning about politics for its own sake. Because it is not rational for individual voters to do that, you wind up with a lot of voters who are relatively poorly informed. The problem is the if the electorate as a whole is poorly informed, then you wind up with the possibility of bad decisions been made where income and i