Want to be president? Show us how you’d handle a disaster.

Instead of spending the week after a debate arguing over who had the best comeback or the worst gaffe, maybe we’d get the kind of Monday-morning quarterbacking that touches on some of the challenges of actually being president. Maybe voters would learn a few things about the mechanics of the executive office. We’d also get a real test of how well our candidates understand the responsibilities of different federal and state agencies. In the Atlanta power grid attack scenario, would a potential president know who had authority over what, and how to lead and coordinate a response with many overlapping jurisdictions? How well could the candidate calm the nation in a volatile moment of fear?