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Does anyone have the minute by minute breakdown for how much time each speaker received? It just seemed to me like Duncan Hunter received way less time than the others.

I know a couple sites did some clock-watch statistics for the last debate but I couldn't find any this time. (Although, last time, the two analyses differed wildly). Based on analysis of the prior debate, I used their method to come up with the following for this debate. Hunter wins for brevity, although, in a debate and a contest for face-time, I'm not sure that's a good time.

              Number of   # of Words   Words per
Candidate     Questions   to Respond   Response

Mccain            8+         1444        181
Romney            7          1603        229
Giuliani          6+         1382        230
Huckabee          6          1185        198
Gilmore           5          1212        242
Brownback         5          1008        202
Tancredo          5          1171        234
Hunter            5           838        168
Paul              4+         1208        302
Thompson          4           822        206

+Considerable follow-up questions/dialogue -- counted as single question and response.