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Gov. John Kasich of Ohio is in and former Gov. Rick Perry of Texas is out of Fox News’s Republican debate on Thursday night in Cleveland, officials with the network said Tuesday, resolving the mystery of which lower-polling candidates will make the cut for the first debate of the 2016 presidential contest.
The network announced the 10 candidates who will have a podium spot for the main forum, which is expected to draw wide national viewership and give an invaluable platform to the candidates involved. The remaining seven will be part of an earlier forum airing at 5 p.m. that day.
Fox News’s “decision desk,” which does its election night calls, sifted through five national polls, including the network’s own survey released late Monday, to select the top 10 candidates for the debate based on the polling.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/u...c=edit_na_20150804&nlid=57435284&ref=cta&_r=0
In an effort to tamp down complaints from candidates who were unlikely to make it onto the stage, Fox added a 5 p.m. candidate forum that will air prior to the main debate. Derisively referred to as the "kiddie table" debate, it will include former Texas governor Rick Perry (at 1.8 percent), former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum (1.4), Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (1.4), businesswoman Carly Fiorina (1.3), Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C., 0.7), former New York governor George Pataki (0.6) and former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore (0.2). Former IRS commissioner Mark Everson, who filed a complaint about the selection process with the FEC, will not be included. (In an e-mail to The Post, Everson indicated that he had not heard from the network.) Fox eliminated a mandatory 1 percent polling average for participation in the earlier event. If they hadn't, Pataki, Gilmore and Graham wouldn't have been able to participate.Perry out Kasich in Fox News announces the participants in Thursday night s debate - The Washington Post
I think they would have done better with 4 smaller debates of 4-5 people, selected by pulling names out of a hat. That would have made for discussions that go beyond soundbites, and would have discouraged grandstanding stunts to get debate placement.
But what about God...?Well here it is in all its glory. The only presidential debate possibly in the history of the world that is hand picking the candidates that you will hear. What a field it is with each participant more reactionary and bloated than the next, most in bed with billionaire power brokers and no message for the people except Ronald Reagan is the great one and I never heard of George W. Bush.
Gov. John Kasich of Ohio is in and former Gov. Rick Perry of Texas is out of Fox News’s Republican debate on Thursday night in Cleveland, officials with the network said Tuesday, resolving the mystery of which lower-polling candidates will make the cut for the first debate of the 2016 presidential contest.
The network announced the 10 candidates who will have a podium spot for the main forum, which is expected to draw wide national viewership and give an invaluable platform to the candidates involved. The remaining seven will be part of an earlier forum airing at 5 p.m. that day.
Fox News’s “decision desk,” which does its election night calls, sifted through five national polls, including the network’s own survey released late Monday, to select the top 10 candidates for the debate based on the polling.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/u...c=edit_na_20150804&nlid=57435284&ref=cta&_r=0
I am sure it will be a buzing at a million miles a minute...I really wish I could witness this. Cruz is legendary for debating. The dynamics will be really interesting to see how they square off.
He is just whey too dorky for Fox and the GOP...I think they would have done better with 4 smaller debates of 4-5 people, selected by pulling names out of a hat. That would have made for discussions that go beyond soundbites, and would have discouraged grandstanding stunts to get debate placement.
Yep. How ironic that the Governor of the largest continental state is excluded? Fox said there were few options when in truth there were many. Fox is making a mockery of democracy and they should be ashamed.
I could go for elimination questioning with selection done by bow and arrow...I think a better option would be to allow anyone in the audience to rush the stage and answer any question they wanted.
That would be great.
I could go for elimination questioning with selection done by bow and arrow...I think a better option would be to allow anyone in the audience to rush the stage and answer any question they wanted.
That would be great.
Not enough usage for the amount of thirst I have for tequila...I could go for elimination questioning with selection done by bow and arrow...I think a better option would be to allow anyone in the audience to rush the stage and answer any question they wanted.
That would be great.
I think I would go for a shot of tequila every time someone mentions Ronald Reagan.
