How does America select its leaders?

And is there a better way?

We liked the sizzle reel for the new TV series concept, but it needed a better introduction. Focus. What’s the problem we are trying to solve?

There’s something rotten with American democracy. Partly it’s the collapse of journalism - something Chris Stirewalt covers brilliantly in his new book. Partly it’s the way political money works. But I still think the biggest problem is that the presidential primary debates have been allowed to become open-mic cage matches.

Should we call them cage matches? Clown shows? How about shouting matches? Subscribers, take a look at the 3-minute sizzle reel to see what we settled on: