Campaign Platforms

Here's an embarassing situation:

WASHINGTON (CNN) - The beginning of the debate showed not all candidates have the same platform. Rep Dennis Kucinich is standing on a wooden platform to boost his height but he isn’t the only one, Senator Hillary Clinton is also using a platform to increase her stature.

In this case, there was probably no avoiding it. I mean, a campaign's advance team can control (and negotiate) lots of things -- but a major network can probably control the camera angles, if they want to ...