Stonehill debate cancelled, apparently because Indies were included.

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4. The answers to that may be to change the format, use time limits and stop

using moderators who allow their partisanship stand in the way of their being fair.

These are not new things in Massachusetts. Mass Dems need to stop playing victim every election and crying foul and address them, once and for all. For just one thing, it's beyond me why Dems keep agreeing to moderators with a proven track record of being so frustrated at the blueness of Mass that they all but challenge Dems to a duel at dawn. And why they even allow those kinds of moderators to be first, when the first debate is so crucial in voters' minds and usually the one that is watched by the most viewers.

None of this is esoteric stuff. Complaining about Republican unfairness, stolen elections and things of that kind gets me only so far. I'd much prefer to win elections, esp. in a state this blue. If Dem strategists can't do the basics, why not, and why are they still on the payroll?