Posted on 05/22/2015 2:36:19 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In a new press release, Fox News announced that the first Republican presidential debate will feature only candidates who average in the top 10 in the most recent polls, in a field where well over a dozen candidates are expected to run. (RELATED: Who Gets In The Primary Debates? A Serious Question For Republicans)
Fox News will host the first Republican presidential debate in Cleveland, Ohio on August 6, in conjunction with the Ohio Republican Party and Facebook. One of the requirements for debate participants is that they “must place in the top 10 of an average of the five most recent national polls, as recognized by FOX News leading up to August 4th.”
Six Republicans have already announced their candidacy for president (Carly Fiorina, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, and Mike Huckabee). Four other candidates (Lindsey Graham, Rick Perry, Scott Walker, and George Pataki) plan to make announcements one way or the other in the near future, and six more have taken formal steps toward running for president (Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Bobby Jindal, John Kasich, Donald Trump, and Scott Walker).
The end result is that as many as six candidates could be excluded from the first debate, assuming none drop out, there are no ties, and no dark horses emerge.
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Good!
This is wrong.
Regarless of his standing at the time, you just know they will have Huckleberry as one of them. And whoever else Rove tells them to have on.
BTW, they counted Scott Walker twice.
SOOOOOooooo..... Smaller stages .. Bigger ratings.. More intense interchanges?
One can only hope..
So whoever is producing the poll results is deciding who the top 10 contenders are. Although I think that most conservatives will probably be happy ok with the top 10, such an approach is questionable.
That to me, leaves the following potential candidates:
Cruz
Rubio
Bush
Walker
Paul
Carson
Perry
Huckabee
Fiorina
Graham
The following might be crowded out — Santorum, Gilmore, Trump and Jindal
If you can't crack the top ten why should you be allowed to be on the debate. I could decide to run for President. Should I be included?
Sounds fine to me.
The also rans are annoying.
There’s an atypically good idea...
Polling is irrelevant before they have a chance to be heard. I could even see limiting later debates, but not the first one unless they mean to have another debate for the rest of the contenders.
If you run, you should be included.
OK, which pollster decides who the top 10 are?
RE: If you run, you should be included.
If this is the case, how do we fit them all in a debate stage?
Why call ten people standing at podiums with 5-6 minutes of actual speaking time a debate?
according to real clear politics these are the current top 10:
Bush
Walker
Rubio
Paul
Huckabee
Cruz
Carson
Christie
Perry
Santorum
Is there no limit to the size of “debate” that can reasonably be staged?
Trump’s name recognition could well get him in there ahead of any not in the top 5.
Kasich, Fiorina, Jindal, and Graham wouldn’t make the cut
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