The Candidates
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, which is already scheduled to host a 10-candidate (Brownback, Gilmore, Giuliani, Huckabee, Hunter, McCain, Paul, Romney, Tancredo, and Tommy Thompson are confirmed) or more debate among Republican White House contenders on May 3, 2007, has decided to hold a second GOP presidential debate just prior to the Titanic Tuesday, February 5, 2008, primary election in so many states. This second debate will be held on Wednesday, January 30, 2008, and will be restricted to the top two or three Republican presidential hopefuls at that time, with criteria for selection of the participants and the identity of the media sponsor being undecided as of now.
March 28th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
I’m happy they will be doing this. By then, I’m sure the field will not be 10. It will probably be no greater than five. I’ll look forward to watching that prior to Super super Tuesday.
March 28th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
Wow I hope they don’t only include 2 or 3 immediately BEFORE Feb 5th. There may not be 10 still in the race but we’ve speculated here before that there could conceivably by three tied for first place with some close seconds heading into Feb 5th, and several candidates can lay claim to high support in specific Feb. 5th primary states.
March 28th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
that room is going to be way too crowded
March 28th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
and with 10 candidates and counting it will take hours just to answer one question
March 29th, 2007 at 12:55 am
The more I think about it, the more it will be a sound bite symphony than a debate. The contrast and interplay of ideas works better in smaller groups and I’m certain the moderators will limit responses to 20-40 seconds for the large group.
March 29th, 2007 at 1:27 am
Bark. . .I agree, which is to say I’m afraid a 10 person debate is pointless. Let’s do the math: Ten candidates are asked, let’s say, 10 questions each, on a variety of topics. That’s 100 questions total. Give each just three minutes to answer - still too short in my opinion but whatever. That’s 300 minutes of just answering - five hours. We haven’t added in time for the actual questions, or more importantly for the rebuttals. Sounds like a CSPAN marathon night to me. Better start loading up on popcorn and jolt cola.
March 29th, 2007 at 9:04 am
I don’t know a 10 person debate sounds good. Could be a lot of talking over each other, getting mad, maye a brawl?
With any luck this could rival a Jery Springer episode.
April 3rd, 2007 at 10:17 pm
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