Campaigns Consider Dramatic Changes To The GOP Debates

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Republican presidential candidates will meet Sunday night to chart changes they want to the presidential debates amid mounting criticism of what many of the campaigns say has been an unwieldy and unfair process.
The meeting follows the Republican National Committee’s decision on Friday to suspend its debate partnership with NBC News, in response to claims that CNBC moderators mistreated its candidates at Wednesday night’s forum. Sunday’s gathering has being described by sources on campaigns and at the RNC as an opportunity to produce reforms that the committee could then present to networks still scheduled to host debates.

huffingtonpost.com/entry/campaigns-gop-debates-changes_5633f5e4e4b06317991291aa

My personal belief is that there are too many candidates on stage so we hear too little of the actual ideas. Any thoughts?
 
Good_Tidings said:
Republican presidential candidates will meet Sunday night to chart changes they want to the presidential debates amid mounting criticism of what many of the campaigns say has been an unwieldy and unfair process.
The meeting follows the Republican National Committee’s decision on Friday to suspend its debate partnership with NBC News, in response to claims that CNBC moderators mistreated its candidates at Wednesday night’s forum. Sunday’s gathering has being described by sources on campaigns and at the RNC as an opportunity to produce reforms that the committee could then present to networks still scheduled to host debates.

huffingtonpost.com/entry/campaigns-gop-debates-changes_5633f5e4e4b06317991291aa

My personal belief is that there are too many candidates on stage so we hear too little of the actual ideas. Any thoughts?
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I am a regular viewer of CNBC, and I mean every day Monday through Friday. I like the variety of people on the network and see more of them than I see my family in Illinois. I have not found them politically one-sided liberals in the past. Many of their more conservative on-air personalities have moved to Fox Business News, but they have been replaced by other competent people.

With all that said, I was extremely disappointed in the CNBC moderators for the last debate. I can’t explain the lack of substantive questions on important issues. The RNC really needs to respond so this does not happen again.
 
Good_Tidings said:
Republican presidential candidates will meet Sunday night to chart changes they want to the presidential debates amid mounting criticism of what many of the campaigns say has been an unwieldy and unfair process.
The meeting follows the Republican National Committee’s decision on Friday to suspend its debate partnership with NBC News, in response to claims that CNBC moderators mistreated its candidates at Wednesday night’s forum. Sunday’s gathering has being described by sources on campaigns and at the RNC as an opportunity to produce reforms that the committee could then present to networks still scheduled to host debates.

huffingtonpost.com/entry/campaigns-gop-debates-changes_5633f5e4e4b06317991291aa

My personal belief is that there are too many candidates on stage so we hear too little of the actual ideas. Any thoughts?
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I agree with you. I would prefer that debates be suspended for a while until the number of candidates decreases significantly.
 
Trader said:
I am a regular viewer of CNBC, and I mean every day Monday through Friday. I like the variety of people on the network and see more of them than I see my family in Illinois. I have not found them politically one-sided liberals in the past. Many of their more conservative on-air personalities have moved to Fox Business News, but they have been replaced by other competent people.

With all that said, I was extremely disappointed in the CNBC moderators for the last debate. I can’t explain the lack of substantive questions on important issues. The RNC really needs to respond so this does not happen again.
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I thought many of the questions were substantive… I was disappointed with the moderators because it felt like they were trying to cram 3-4 hours of subject matter into a 2 hour debate format… It didn’t leave time for proper answers and rebuttals.

They also seemed ill prepared to challenge candidates on inaccuracies. For instance, when asking Trump about his opposition to an increase in H1b visas, the moderator shouldn’t have to ask where she read about his opposition… Especially when it was right on the candidate’s campaign website.
 
meltzerboy said:
I agree with you. I would prefer that debates be suspended for a while until the number of candidates decreases significantly.
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I’d prefer round-robin debates. The problem is that as long as Trump and Carson are dominating (and the rest of the field is heavily split - there’s more distance between 2nd and 3rd place than between 3rd place and 10th place right now), there’s not much of an incentive for most of the candidates to drop out. They all believe that eventually Trump and Carson will come back to the pack, but the problem is, Trump and Carson WON’T come back to the pack until some people in the pack drop out of the race.
 
My initial thought is that I wouldn’t rely on anything that comes from Huffington Post on the subject of Republicans. Having said that, I’m perfectly fine with a large field in this early stage of the nomination process. It’s all going to be narrowing down once Iowa happens.
 
Headline:

'Ted Cruz: Let Hannity, Levin, Limbaugh Moderate Debate"

Does anyone think this would be a good idea?
 
Cider said:
My initial thought is that I wouldn’t rely on anything that comes from Huffington Post on the subject of Republicans. Having said that, I’m perfectly fine with a large field in this early stage of the nomination process. It’s all going to be narrowing down once Iowa happens.
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People forget that everyone is still doing warm-up laps at this stage of the race. The Iowa results will start to narrow the field.
 
Good_Tidings said:
Headline:

'Ted Cruz: Let Hannity, Levin, Limbaugh Moderate Debate"

Does anyone think this would be a good idea?
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Yes. It seems like people have no issue letting Hillary Clinton voters host the debates, why not let Republican voters host the debates?
 
Good_Tidings said:
Headline:

'Ted Cruz: Let Hannity, Levin, Limbaugh Moderate Debate"

Does anyone think this would be a good idea?
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I want journalists not pundits moderating the debates. This statement by Cruz leaves me seriously scratching my head.
 
Cider said:
I want journalists not pundits moderating the debates. This statement by Cruz leaves me seriously scratching my head.
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The problem is that a large percentage of Republicans think all journalists are in the tank for the Democratic Party. Many seem to believe that such pundits as Limbaugh, Hannity, and Levin are actually fairer than most journalists.

But, honestly, I take Cruz’s comment in jest. He’s pretty much stating that Dems would never let a GOP pundit moderate their debate; why should the GOP allow people who are biased against them to moderate one of their debates?

Regardless, though, the TV so-called debates are generally anything but. These debates are pretty much “defend your previous statements/previous record/life history” or “give the people a 10-second soundbyte” garbage. There’s no real exchange of ideas. And how can there be when each candidate has at most 15 minutes total to talk in a partisan debate or 90 seconds per question in the “official” bipartisan CPD debates? I mean, sheesh, these are politicians (and Trump) that we’re talking about here! They love to hear themselves talk, anyway - why don’t we actually let them actually discuss and elaborate on their ideas for once? Seriously - instead of having 90-second responses in the CPD debates, why not limit the number of questions to four questions per debate? And make the debate rules similar to high school/college debate team rules (e.g. 15 minutes for the candidate A to respond, 5 minutes for candidate B to reply to candidate A, 15 minutes for candidate B to respond, and 5 minutes for candidate A to reply to candidate B)? Do we as Americans care so little about our country that we care only about candidate talking points?
 
meltzerboy said:
I agree with you. I would prefer that debates be suspended for a while until the number of candidates decreases significantly.
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I think it has been important though for America to get to know these candidates and hear them speak and debate. It has been helpful for me to hear them-both republican and democrat. That said, I am glad the candidates had their meeting and are hoping to improve the debates. The moderators from CNBC were really lame.
 
Cider said:
I want journalists not pundits moderating the debates. This statement by Cruz leaves me seriously scratching my head.
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The CNBC moderators were pundits who call themselves journalists.

Question: Would you call Candy Crowley a pundit or a journalist? In 2012, as a debate moderator, she entered the debate answering / defending a position for President Obama. She became an active participant against one candidate. Pundit or journalist?
 
shockerfan said:
The CNBC moderators were pundits who call themselves journalists.

Question: Would you call Candy Crowley a pundit or a journalist? In 2012, as a debate moderator, she entered the debate answering / defending a position for President Obama. She became an active participant against one candidate. Pundit or journalist?
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Perhaps she is a little of both and a lot of neither.
 
Good_Tidings said:
Headline:

'Ted Cruz: Let Hannity, Levin, Limbaugh Moderate Debate"

Does anyone think this would be a good idea?
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I don’t think so; ideally you need balance and all of the suggested moderators are to the far right. They should have one on the right, one moderate and one on the left. to really balance out the moderators. Just my opinion of course. 🙂
 
gamewell45 said:
I don’t think so; ideally you need balance and all of the suggested moderators are to the far right. They should have one on the right, one moderate and one on the left. to really balance out the moderators. Just my opinion of course. 🙂
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Certainly reasonable, although I believe most potential moderators would lie and say they are 'independent". Unfortunately for the potential moderator, their politics usually come out in how they word their questions, the tone they take, and if they insert themselves as a debate participant (like Crowley did in the Obama / Romney debate)
 
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