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Republican debate tonight, yay or nay?
« on: October 21, 2007, 04:24:12 PM »
ok is this going to be productive or will it be 2 hrs of milarchy

it's on fox news

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Re: Republican debate tonight, yay or nay?
« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2007, 08:39:00 PM »
nah i watched cartoon "Cars"

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Re: Republican debate tonight, yay or nay?
« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2007, 10:01:39 PM »
you didn't miss much, basically they all went after  hilary and the crowd booed ron paul every time he spoke.


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Re: Republican debate tonight, yay or nay?
« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2007, 11:35:17 AM »
Someone's summary from Wiki:

[edit] October 21, 2007 - Orlando, Florida
The Republican Party of Florida hosted a two-day event in October featuring major Republican candidates for President of the United States and culminating in a presidential debate. The debate, produced in partnership with the Fox News Channel, was the focal point of the weekend's events, called "Presidency IV."

Presidency IV was held on Saturday, October 20, 2007 and Sunday, October 21, 2007 at the Rosen Shingle Creek Hotel and Resort in Orlando, Florida. The weekend's agenda consisted of a variety of activities, culminating in the nationally-televised, primetime debate at 8:00PM Eastern time.[4]

According to Fox News Viewers text voting after the debate, Ron Paul won with 34%, Huckabee came in second with 27%, Giuliani third with 11%, Romney 10%, Thompson 9%, McCain 5%, Hunter 1% and Tancredo less than 1% [54][55].

At one point, with the poll showing Ron Paul winning the informal “cell phone” poll, Fox News talk show host Sean Hannity burst out with a definitive statement, “Ron Paul did not win the debate tonight,” even though the poll showed that he was winning by a wide margin [56]. Hannity described the results as "stacking."

The Republican debate also revealed that the Republican contenders think America is going bankrupt if spending policies are not changed.

Thompson hit on a theme that all of the Republicans seemed to agree on and that is that out of control spending is bankrupting America, "We’re spending the money of our grand kids and kids yet to be born”, Thompson said.

Giuliani accused Fred Thompson of being the “biggest obstacle to tort reform”. Giuliani touted his record as New York City Mayor, said, “I brought down crime 60%”, and called for school choice.

Regarding healthcare Ron Paul said that “managed care isn’t working” and that “drug companies lobby for managed care”. Paul said, “We could take care of these poor people if we weren’t trying to maintain an empire overseas”.

Ron Paul hit on his theme of military non-interventionism, “70% of Americans want war over with and are sick and tired of big government at home and overseas”. They want their “civil liberties and not allow government to spend endlessly and bankrupt us”.

Mike Huckabee defended the “sanctity of human life, it is one of the defining issues of our culture” and on healthcare promoted “personalization not privatization. We do not have healthcare system, we have a maze. It’s a healthcare crisis”.

Huckabee was regarded as the candidate who got the most support for his debate performance. As shown in that in the last FOX debate Huckabee cams second with 18% of the vote. In the this post-debate poll Huckabee got 27% of the vote.

FOX News Channel and its affiliates moderated and televised the debate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_presidential_debates,_2008#October_21.2C_2007_-_Orlando.2C_Florida

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Re: Republican debate tonight, yay or nay?
« Reply #4 on: October 22, 2007, 03:09:22 PM »
the whole thing can be seen here. follow the links after
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmqKo_71-mg

Ron paul highlights
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfCeGhAFJEE

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Re: Republican debate tonight, yay or nay?
« Reply #5 on: October 23, 2007, 11:04:26 AM »
According to Fox News Viewers text voting after the debate, Ron Paul won with 34%, Huckabee came in second with 27%, Giuliani third with 11%, Romney 10%, Thompson 9%, McCain 5%, Hunter 1% and Tancredo less than 1% [54][55].

At one point, with the poll showing Ron Paul winning the informal “cell phone” poll, Fox News talk show host Sean Hannity burst out with a definitive statement, “Ron Paul did not win the debate tonight,” even though the poll showed that he was winning by a wide margin [56]. Hannity described the results as "stacking."

Why is it that Ron Paul's people can "stack" the polls... yet Romney/Rudy, with more money, cannot?

I gotta hand it to FOX viewers, they're smart.  1/3 of them gave it to Ron Paul - Does that mean that 1/3 of them are vehemently anti-war?  (I can't see giving the win to someone whose view you despise).

GOod post, BB

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Re: Republican debate tonight, yay or nay?
« Reply #6 on: October 23, 2007, 12:05:07 PM »
Why is it that Ron Paul's people can "stack" the polls... yet Romney/Rudy, with more money, cannot?

I gotta hand it to FOX viewers, they're smart.  1/3 of them gave it to Ron Paul - Does that mean that 1/3 of them are vehemently anti-war?  (I can't see giving the win to someone whose view you despise).

GOod post, BB

Only Ron Paul's people watched the debate on Sunday
Only Ron Paul's people know how to send a text message to vote on the Fox poll
Only Ron Paul's people have Internet and know how to use it