Posted on 10/08/2004 9:24:54 AM PDT by wm_tate
The heads of the debate commission just said on Fox News that they're using the same screening process for tonight's debate as they used in 1992 and 1996. Gallup has sampled to identify undecided voters as well as "soft" Kerry and Bush voters.
What was different about the 2000 screening process??
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I was afraid of that: audience brought in on "the short bus."
Why flatter these idiots? Why pick America's stupidest and most anchorless to ask questions of a sitting President?
Dan
So, in other words, we can look forward to seeing "Son of Pony-tail Guy" tonight.
For the life of me i do not understand why the Bush team agreed to the debate formats the way they are. Both of the debate moderators for the first 2 debates had a liberal bias(though not quite as bad as many freepers seem to think). And now bush is going into a forum thats ripe for leftwing party-crashing. I just don't get it.
Rest assured that most questions will be from a left-of-center perspective. Remember that excellent SNLive parody of the 'undecided' questioners in the Bush-Gore townhall debate? It will be the same again.
What is bad is the DemocRats understand the process and warned people in that area how to answer questions so they would be chosen as swing voters. Expect some Haliburton BS along with some 1000 dead American speil and some worst employment record since Hoover spin. There will be at least one 'Swing Voter' who resembles Micheal Moore.
Look at it this way. While Bush may struggle to answer a tough question, Kerry gets angry and attacks the person who asks a tough question.
I think Kerry will torpedo his own chances tonight.
Biased questions are an opportunity to set the record straight. They are only bad news if you can not properly address them (but understood, some of these people may be so "out there" not even 90 seconds will be enough time to bring them back to earth).
I'd still like to know what makes the screening process for the '92 and 96' debates different from the one used in 2000. That info would be interesting...
I'd still like to know what makes the screening process for the '92 and 96' debates different from the one used in 2000. That info would be interesting...
No one who is still undecided at this point is believable. The screening process should be to keep them out.
Say, speaking of which. Has anybody heard where Michael Moore will be tonight? Hmmm.
"Kerry gets angry and attacks the person who asks a tough question. "
Unfortunately I don't think Kerry will get a tough question.
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