Big primetime debate tomorrow

[rpwi]

With Romney waffling whether he would participate or not and NBC showing their regularly scheduled programming there was some confusion as to whether it would go on, but it will on NBC with all four candidates.

The debate will be moderated by NBC's Brian Williams and will include a panel with National Journal’s Beth Reinhard and the Times’ Adam Smith.

Anybody know how fair these guys are?

This will be held at the University of South Florida at 9:00 PM eastern. Believe this will be the first broadcast debate which means it could have the best ratings of all debates yet. Good chance for Paul to pick up his national polling numbers.

Any heads up on the type of questions that will be asked? Will it be another one of those debates where they pretend it's about user submitted questions but end up ignoring those and asking whatever they want?

Anybody attending? Is this one of those events that's pretty exclusive? If it is a college crowd....that could be a good thing.

 

[Paulitics 2011]

Adam Smith is on the panel? I guess he'll like Ron quite a bit!

Haha.

 

[thoughtomator]

They could hardly be worse than Fox and CNN, but it wouldn't terribly surprise me if they gave a go at it.

Brian Williams (CFR member)


Beth Reinhard (propagandist, promotes "electability" lies)
http://www.nationaljournal.com/reporters/bio/109

Times’ Adam Smith (might be fair)
http://www.tampabay.com/writers/article380298.ece

 

[ONUV]

the only thing saving gingrich's campaign are these debates.

 

[69360]

You can pretty much replace "national" journal with "necon" journal if that answers your question.

 

[Epic]

Um, so the original post says it's not on NBC but is being broadcast nationally. Can somebody clear that up?

 

[Bama Boy]

It will be on NBC. The other network debate was CBS where RP got 89 seconds. Hope they let him talk at least a little.

 

[alucard13mmfmj]

i wonder what surprises gingrich is going to pull at the debates lol. there might be another theater piece like the last debate in SC.

 

[Lord Xar]

I really hope he knocks it out of the park And destroys newt and frothy

 

[VictorB]

I hope we are ready for this. We need a good debate if it's going to be national.

 

[robert9712000]

Paul needs to bring a bell and when they start ignoring him he needs to start ringing it and say "Hey! incase you forgot there's 4 people here!"

 

[rpwi]

i wonder what surprises gingrich is going to pull at the debates lol. there might be another theater piece like the last debate in SC.

He'll probably promise more pork to the locals like what's done in the past debates (local highways, ethanol, South Carolina port improvements, etc...). All things the states should be paying for themselves. He'll probably promise more Hurricane relief this time.

Paul on the other hand needs to stay national in his message...although it might be nice to hear him talk about ending the Cuban embargo.

 

[abstrusezincate]

Am I the only one with debate fatigue?

 

[bluesc]

Am I the only one with debate fatigue?

I'm sure Ron is suffering too.

 

[rpwi]

Um, so the original post says it's not on NBC but is being broadcast nationally. Can somebody clear that up?

To clarify...NBC did not correctly post the debate on their schedule (probably worried Romney would skip town). They were planning to broadcast the debates though regardless as long as the candidates showed up. So yeah, this is being shown on NBC.

 

[jbox]

Time to get the stopwatch ready! I think CBS got off the hook last time a little too easy.

 

[MsDoodahs]

Paul needs to bring a bell and when they start ignoring him he needs to start ringing it and say "Hey! incase you forgot there's 4 people here!"

No, we need Paul supporters in the audience willing to shout ASK DOCTOR PAUL, ASK DOCTOR PAUL when they try to skip him.

 

[walt]

Anyone got an Internet feed for NBC?

 

[The One]

Am I the only one with debate fatigue?

A little bit, but I keep hoping for a holy shit moment to occur in one of these things.

 

[rpwi]

It should be streamed on:

tampabay.com and usf.edu

"Florida will be at the center of next year's presidential election, and this is the state where national issues like the economy and health care loom especially large," said Paul Tash, Times chairman and chief executive officer."

Looks like these may be some of the questions the Times is going to ask.