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they didn t raise much of a fuss at all when Rand Paul decided to skip the previous debate. I guess informing the voters is more important when it s Donald Trump, or when there s a lot of money at stake.

Good point.

And last night's debate had half of the normal audience.

Ailes failed in his mission to placate Trump and to get him to the debates--Trump was not going to renege on the vets. Funny how Ailes said Trump could even be late, they would accommodate him.

This morning Ailes is signing credit memos to the advertisers who paid rates dependent on a much larger audience.

[The Iceman Cometh]

And last night's debate had half of the normal audience.

So, check my math here.

US population is about 318 million. Let's assume the country is evenly divided at 50% leaning left and 50% leaning right. At 13 million viewers, the debate received the attention of only 8% of the country leaning right and only 4% of the entire population.

Not exactly a smashing success.