Posted on 10/17/2015 5:34:48 PM PDT by Mozilla
Mike Huckabee is done playing by the rules.
The former Arkansas governor received less airtime during the Republican presidential debate broadcast by CNN in September than all but one of the 10 other candidates he shared the stage with, During the nearly three-hour prime time program, Huckabee received just 6.9 percent of talk time allotted to the 11 candidates. Only Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who exited the 2016 race a few days later, spoke less.
Huckabee, who spent seven years hosting his own nationally televised Fox News show and is hardly a wallflower, is determined not to let that happen again when Republicans gather in Boulder, Colo., this month for the third debate. In an interview Friday, the Huckabee campaign said the Arkansan would assert himself on stage, even if that means ignoring the CNBC moderators and the debate rules they establish.
"We're definitely not going to allow what happened in the CNN debate to happen again," Huckabee advisor Hogan Gidley said. "The governor has always been respectful of the rules and the process but he's going to get his point across."
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The debates have presented perils unique to this campaign. Never before has the candidate field been so crowded so as to make it impossible to include all them on one debate stage. But even if you secure a spot in prime time and avoid being relegated to the happy hour debate, there's the issue of getting airtime. With so many contenders participating in the main event, there's no guarantee that airtime will be distributed evenly.
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“Huckabee received just 6.9 percent of talk time”
He is polling at 3%. He got more time than he should have.
It would be better than listening to him speak.
Whether it's 5% or out, or below the margin of error, at some point the guys with no support should be removed. If Lindsey Graham wants to play dress-up and pretend that he is a contender, it should be in the lobby at the local Courtyard, not a major venue with cameras.
No rules might work is there were only 2 or 3 candidates.
You get 10-11 on the stage, all trying to talk over each other, it would turn into a circus. The Media might love that, the viewers wouldn’t.
They should come up with a way to eliminate.
After the first debate, only those getting 2% or more could be at the second.
After the second, only those those getting 3% or could participate in the next debate.
Then, 4% or more.
8% or more.
16% or more.
That should get the stage down to the 2 or 3 real contenders.
Rules? There's no rules in a knife fight!
Huck should be kiddie-tabled.
Huckleberry Hound needs to drop out like the rest of the deadwood like Pataki, Christie, Kasich, etc.
“Huck should go back to his Saturday night Fox News show.”
Why, so he could “help” FNC as they try to torpedo Trump? He simply needs to just go away!
Ok, no rules and no one with less then 5% average in the polls on the stage to waste our time.
So...
He’s taking on the Carly strategy.
I agree, maybe if we all donated $5.00 he would go far away.
He sounded like he was falling asleep waiting for his next question.
The media would love more fighting. Play the clips constantly.
Huckabee should not be part of any further debates.
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