Posted on 08/19/2015 8:40:17 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
CNN’s criteria for its September GOP presidential debate may keep Carly Fiorina off the stage reserved for the top 10 candidates despite her recent surge in the polls. The CNN debate methodology, released earlier this year, weighs polls from July 16 to Sept. 10. The use of the earlier surveys will hurt the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, who barely registered in the polls before the Aug. 6 Fox News debate. But since then, she has seen a significant bounce. “It acts as sort of an anchor on those people who had done poorly early and a bit of a parachute for those people who have done well early,” said Cliff Zukin, a Rutgers University political scientist and former president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research. The criteria could also protect Sen. Rand Paul from sliding out of the top 10 despite his recent dip in polls. Fiorina received 1% support or less in most of the polls before the Fox News debate. After a strong performance at Fox's second-tier debate, her numbers began to climb, jumping to 5 percent. campaign and supporters hope she can maintain polling numbers high enough to make CNN’s top 10. CNN, which declined to comment on its criteria and their potential impact on the field for this story, has said it would use polls from ABC/The Washington Post, Bloomberg News, CBS/The New York Times, CNN, FOX, Gallup, Marist, McClatchy, Monmouth University, NBC/The Wall Street Journal, Pew, Quinnipiac, USA Today and Time. The network also has other qualifications it is considering, including a candidate having paid staff in two of the four early-voting states. Based on calculations for the 11 qualifying polls that have been conducted since July 16 — the main debate stage would look the same as it did earlier this month.
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We have good serious conservative candidates.
She’s not one of them.
They need the token woman candidate on the stage.
No, I'm not going to enumerate all of it here. It's already out there in the public domain, waiting to be compiled by some Demonicrat opposition researcher!!!
CNN’s war on wimmens.
I agree, but it is dumb to include polls from before the first debate.
IMO she is yet another GOPee fallback candidate and an attack dog to use against Trump.
denounced Ted Cruz for Filibuster of defunding Obamacare
Not my cup of Tea
Add Lucent and HP record
Good Job CNN
If that is the case, then a debate mmight be an excellent forum to hear the alleged "dirt", and any explanation, is it not?
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We have good serious conservative candidates.
She’s not one of them.
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Yup. Heard her on Fox tonight explaining that it will take a change to the Constitution to deprive anchor babies of U.S. Citizenship.
She should re-read the 14th Amendment before her next TV appearance. That amendment will do the job just fine as it stands.
Maybe, except that she seems to have some talent as a deceptive, or maybe I should say, “stealth” debater based on follow-up polling.
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A real achiever!
Congrats on your promotion BFAC!
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>> “That amendment will do the job just fine as it stands.” <<
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If only the nooz liars would quit re-writing it.
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Obama for some reason doesn’t want her there.
[[I agree, but it is dumb to include polls from before the first debate.]]
Probably. If I had any use for her I would be upset.
Lt. Colombo could probably have picked up a few pointers from you.
Not good.
Why was humblegunner banned?
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