Campaigns Consider Dramatic Changes To The GOP Debates

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Several Republican presidential campaigns began mapping out new demands Sunday for greater control over the format and content of primary debates, which have attracted big audiences and become strategically critical for the 2016 cycle’s expansive field of contenders.
The effort was a response to long-simmering frustrations over the debates, the questions and in some cases the moderators, which boiled over this weekend when advisers from at least 11 campaigns met in the Washington suburbs to deliberate about how to regain sway over the process.
The private gathering became the latest twist in what has been a turbulent season of debates for the GOP, with less-popular candidates — including a sitting senator and governor — furious about being relegated to a little-watched “undercard” debate and the front-runners dismayed by a system they have described as a disastrous brew of bias and arbitrary rules.

washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-contenders-demand-greater-control-over-crucial-debates/2015/11/01/c1226c0c-80a0-11e5-8ba6-cec48b74
 
shockerfan said:
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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This isn’t so much lying to the participants so much as it is the reporters lying to themselves, though. Most news organizations require their reporters to at least nominally independent, and most reporters truly believe that they are. The other thing is that what’s generally considered the “center”, most “Conservatives” consider to be “Liberal/Socialist”. Simply put, though, most people are blind to their own biases.
 
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 agree. They need to thin the herd or, at the very least, divide it into two separate debates as FOX had originally planned to do.
 
7_Sorrows said:
I thought they had been divided already.
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Tossing all 14 candidates on-stage at the same time and splitting 2 hours between them was suggested as part of the new format. Of course, they’ve also said that these rules would not apply to Fox and only to CNN. :rolleyes: Anywho, it looks like this is becoming yet another example of what a terrible job Republicans do when it comes to collaboration:

GOP Debate Revolt Crumbles

They can’t even agree on how to run a debate and they want us to let them run the country?
 
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 it would be such a good idea for some of the candidates, including Cruz. Other than, perhaps, Hannity, those moderators could be extremely demanding and tough. They would do their homework down to the last jot and tittle.

Who might such a debate favor? My guess would be those who have done their homework for decades. I would say (oddly enough) Kasich, maybe Fiorina, probably Christie, imaginably even Bush. The top contenders presently might be out of their depth in a debate like that. Limbaugh and Levin are ideologues, to be sure, but I don’t think just waving the Constitution around would do much good with them.
 
Ridgerunner said:
I don’t think it would be such a good idea for some of the candidates, including Cruz. Other than, perhaps, Hannity, those moderators could be extremely demanding and tough. They would do their homework down to the last jot and tittle.

Who might such a debate favor? My guess would be those who have done their homework for decades. I would say (oddly enough) Kasich, maybe Fiorina, probably Christie, imaginably even Bush. The top contenders presently might be out of their depth in a debate like that. Limbaugh and Levin are ideologues, to be sure, but I don’t think just waving the Constitution around would do much good with them.
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I would love to see Limbaugh, Levin and Hannity moderate the democrat debate! They would be brutal.
 
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