Absolutely. I think it's sad that most people who vote are pretty ignorant when it comes to their individual candidate and their parties policies.
Newspapers are an especially bad place to form an opinion from. That's why I like these leader debates - they are giving millions of people an alternative source of information on which to base their vote.
Well, except that the approval differences between the lib dems and their policies in blind tests suggests that it's working even less well than the newspapers in helping people make a good decision.
The much bigger problem is that the population, overwhelmingly, is made up of complete morons.