Did you see the CNN debate on Wednesday night? Neither did I. Oh, I watched a few highlights that seemed to be agitating social media—Carly Fiorina cutting Donald Trump down to size, for example—but like the Super Bowl, I contented myself with reading about it the next morning.

Part of the reason for this relative indifference is that I am not the ideal consumer for televised debates. I have long since decided who I am going to vote for in my state primary—six months from now!—and nothing I have seen or heard prompts me to change my mind. Of course, it is possible that, between now and March, my favored candidate will collapse in the media/opinion-poll primary (in which no actual ballots have been cast) and withdraw from the race, and that I will have to settle on some other aspirant. But I think that’s unlikely.