Any one of those policies would have enlightened and informed the voting public about Obama policy and where the challenger Mit Romney stands in comparison. Monetary policy may divide conservatives and Obama at a core level.
The Fed might have been a topic that showed a contrast in policy. Unmmask the Fed by discussing it.

While the US House passed an audit the Fed bill by a big bipartisan vote months ago long tme Audit Fed sponsor Harry Reid did not allow a Senate vote.( yes Reid as late as 2010 campaign backed an Audit the Fed bill.)

Who paid for Obama’s massive spending 2009 like that 787 bn stimulus? How much has Fed printed and dumped to what ends–slow unemployment? Why are interest rates still so low and kept there by Fed? What impact does the Fed’s ‘easing’ policy have on current and future policies?

Does Obama fear a 16 trillion debt and rising will harm the US economy? Why not? What is the soundness of the policy of deficit spending that he practices?

What are the threats to liberty, free markets and limited government with unchecked deficit spending? Here is where Romney could have a word or two in a discussion.

A few of these issues actually came up as sidenotes or indirectly when Romney talked about problems in Obama’s policies, but most of them didn’t come up at all. Is it any wonder than liberal commentators would avoid topics toxic to Obama with the general electorate?

Bingo. I don’t advise going back to the Lincoln – Douglas format but we should go back to a format where lengthier answers can be given.

It’s not so much that,

as that it’s hard to explain how the Eurozone crisis affects any average American personally. Remember, the name of the game is to motivate each individual VOTER to vote for your candidate. And that motivation is highest when the voter feels that his own personal future is at stake.

Some issues in the above list, like drugs and airport security, are easy to connect to individual voters’ own lives. Others, like the E.U.’s problems, are not.

I do not see in any of the current politicians an understanding or appreciation of Islamic beliefs. Considering that few Christians have devoted the time and effort to read and study their Bible, it would be surprising if the politicians and bureaucrats of our government had bothered to read the Koran and the Hadith; the “sayings” of Mohammad. I must consider that the government’s advisers on foreign policy are either equally illiterate concerning Islam, or they are Muslim or Muslim sympathizers.
Islam is a theocracy, and no facade of democracy will alter the fact that the Imams
and Mullahs hold the only real authority in any Muslim community or country. The
ultimate goal of Islam, other than sharing Heaven with God and seventy virgins, is to
convert or eliminate every human being on this planet. The fact is that there are no moderate Muslims; only those who are willing to commit murder and those who provide them with support!
Until our government and people stop viewing Islam as the moral equivalent of Christianity, stop being deceived by the fact that some Muslims seem to be genuinely nice people, and begin to recognize the threat that Islam represents to our culture and civilization, then they will be incapable of formulating an effective foreign policy to deal with Muslim terrorists and Muslim countries.
Christian “Holy Wars” are a thing of the distant past, but Islamic Jihad is a fact in the present day. I do not unconditionally approve of the conduct of the Crusades and the methods of making war in ancient times, but neither do I propose to judge them by modern standards and sensibilities. What I do judge is the present day chaos in the world that is rooted in Islamic teaching and belief.
Anyone who cherishes liberty and freedom in the world of today and into the future of mankind should recognize the unsuitability of a Muslim or a Christian theocracy run by fallible and self-serving humans. The alternative is to learn Arabic, begin teaching our children to recite “there is only one God, and Mohammad is His prophet”, accept the cruel and sadistic Sharia law with be-headings and mutilations, and give up any
semblance of human rights and equality. Please note that Muslim countries are still practicing slavery and women have no rights in the eyes of Islam.