How to Make Debates More Entertaining

Maybe it's early in the political season for many people. Maybe there weren't enough candidates on the stage (I mean, c'mon, there were like 83 people on the podium for the last Republican debate).Maybe it was the competition from sports or entertainment shows on competing networks. Whatever the reason, the most recent Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas was, by most accounts, kind of a snoozer.

What did it need to amp up the interest level a bit? More cowbell, you say? Sorry, wrong instrument. What it needed, according to the Huffington Post, is this: