That's the consensus on the way next week's GOP debate is shaping up. Some people worry that this is a not very scientific way to decide who's in a debate. I say let the GOPers do what they want, it's their party and their debate.
"Today, RNC communications director Sean Spicer took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal to proclaim that the debates are going to be great this time around, mostly because there are fewer of them than in previous years. His defense of the rule limiting the debate to the 10 top performers in polls (the other six will appear in the political equivalent of the third-place match at the end of the World Cup, the one no one cares about) is reasonable enough; there may be no good way to contain the number of participants. But that doesn’t mean it might not still be a disaster."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/07/27/the-republican-demolition-derby/
"Rick Perry is attacking Donald Trump's credibility and branding the billionaire businessman "a cancer on conservatism." Rick Santorum, a conservative stalwart, popped up on a TV program popular with liberals. Lindsey Graham set his cellphone on fire.
"With the first debate of the Republican presidential campaign approaching, the White House hopefuls are trying everything they can to improve their polling position. A candidate needs to place in the top 10 in an average of national polls to meet the criteria Fox News Channel has set to take the stage Aug. 6 in Cleveland."
"Those kept out risk being overlooked by voters and financial backers heading into the critical fall stretch before the nominating contests start early in 2016."
"If you're not on the stage you're irrelevant, you don't matter," said Republican pollster Frank Luntz.
"At of this past week, former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, former New York Gov. George Pataki, ex-Pennsylvania Sen. Santorum and South Carolina Sen. Graham were outside the top 10. Others close to the edge including Ohio Gov. John Kasich, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and ex-Texas Gov. Perry."
That would relegate them to a second-tier debate, only an hourlong airing before the prime-time event.."
http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/29638228/2015/07/27/2016-republicans-use-trump-tv-to-make-debate-cut
"New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, businesswoman Carly Fiorina, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal are separated by only 1.5 percentage points, according to the RCP national average at the end of last week."
"Christie looks to be in the best shape of the bunch, sitting in 9th place with 2.8 percent support. Perry and Kasich are tied for 10th with 1.8 percent support, followed by Fiorina and Santorum at 1.4 percent, and Jindal at 1.2. (By contrast, the lowest of the top eight, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), has 5.4 percent support; the highest, Donald Trump, has 18.2 percent.)"
"Getting left out of the first debate would be a significant blow to all of their prospects."
“It’s extremely important to be out there,” said Republican strategist Ron Bonjean. “If you’re not there, it’s out-of-sight-out-of-mind for voters, and just as importantly right now, for your fundraising efforts.”
“We’ve never seen anything like this,” said GOP strategist David Payne. “These candidates who are not polling well are forced to spend early money for national ad buys, while the earned media pathway is complicated by Donald Trump, who is costing every other candidate a chance to get in front of the camera. It’s a challenge.”
Not only am I a Trump Democrat I'm becoming a Fox News Democrat as well.
That's basically my answer when people worry about absurd Donald Trump's campaign is. It's their primary and they love Donald Trump. Don't vex the Republicans when they are having their primary or picking who's in their debate.
Rachel Maddow for some reason tonight seems worried about this idea where Fox News picks the top 10 GOPers in the polls and everyone else is SOL. Why is that? Rachel let the Republicans do their primary their way.
Sean Spicer thinks this is going to work out great-why spoil it for him?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/07/27/the-republican-demolition-derby/
I'm sure this will work great:
"With the first debate of the Republican presidential campaign approaching, the White House hopefuls are trying everything they can to improve their polling position. A candidate needs to place in the top 10 in an average of national polls to meet the criteria Fox News Channel has set to take the stage Aug. 6 in Cleveland."
"Those kept out risk being overlooked by voters and financial backers heading into the critical fall stretch before the nominating contests start early in 2016."
"If you're not on the stage you're irrelevant, you don't matter," said Republican pollster Frank Luntz.
"Unless you have some serious ad dollars, it's not a glass ceiling. It's a concrete ceiling."
"At of this past week, former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, former New York Gov. George Pataki, ex-Pennsylvania Sen. Santorum and South Carolina Sen. Graham were outside the top 10. Others close to the edge including Ohio Gov. John Kasich, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and ex-Texas Gov. Perry."
That would relegate them to a second-tier debate, only an hourlong airing before the prime-time event.."
http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/29638228/2015/07/27/2016-republicans-use-trump-tv-to-make-debate-cut
I've said it before-I'm a Trump Democrat. It's obvous what is going on here-Trump and his buddies at Fox are singlehandedly destroying the 2016 GOP Presidential campaign. Just one brick in the wall at a time.
“It’s a roll of the dice,” said Monmouth University polling director Patrick Murray. “It’s going to come down to the vagaries of how independent pollsters round off their results — we’re talking tenths of decimal points. It could come down to the five or six people who didn’t pick up their phones for a national survey and the five or six people who did.”
"New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, businesswoman Carly Fiorina, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal are separated by only 1.5 percentage points, according to the RCP national average at the end of last week."
"Christie looks to be in the best shape of the bunch, sitting in 9th place with 2.8 percent support. Perry and Kasich are tied for 10th with 1.8 percent support, followed by Fiorina and Santorum at 1.4 percent, and Jindal at 1.2. (By contrast, the lowest of the top eight, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), has 5.4 percent support; the highest, Donald Trump, has 18.2 percent.)"
"Getting left out of the first debate would be a significant blow to all of their prospects."
“It’s extremely important to be out there,” said Republican strategist Ron Bonjean. “If you’re not there, it’s out-of-sight-out-of-mind for voters, and just as importantly right now, for your fundraising efforts.”
“We’ve never seen anything like this,” said GOP strategist David Payne. “These candidates who are not polling well are forced to spend early money for national ad buys, while the earned media pathway is complicated by Donald Trump, who is costing every other candidate a chance to get in front of the camera. It’s a challenge.”
Not only am I a Trump Democrat I'm becoming a Fox News Democrat as well.
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