Time to start kicking Lucy.
Posted on 10/17/2012 8:54:37 AM PDT by redtetrahedron
If you want more time to get your message out in debates, it’s good to be a Democrat.
According to the CNN debate clock, President Obama spoke at greater length than Mitt Romney during both debates, as did Vice President Biden during his debate with Paul Ryan...
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The Republicans need to insist on objective moderators, not these shills for the BO regime.
One chance in eight.
Did anyone expect anything different. A liberal communists monitor and a communists King. Nothing new here.
I can’t understand for the life of me why Repubs keep playing the game with the likes of CNN, NPR etc...
It is surprising how many people feel that this is an us against them sporting contest when in reality we are voting on our future as a country and we are all in the same boat. If it sinks, we all sink together.
He has trashed the entire LSM leaving them like a gang-banged woman.
Why is there not more questions about the bizzare comment that Obama made about gas prices and that the economy was
near collapse and that is the reason.. That is a pretty bold statement that it was near collapse. It may have been a bad situation... but collapse? really?
Isn’t Obama a millionaire himself?
Wasn’t his biggest donor Bank of America?
In politics, there are no coincidences........FDR (Attributed)
These were not typical “undecided” voter questions that were asked last night. The “afraid you would be like George Bush” and the women’s studies undecided voter questions were pretty obvious.
How scripted were the questions? Did Crowley give the questions to Obama in advance? Why did she shut down Romney and give Obama more time?
” The Republicans need to insist on objective moderators”
And whose fault is it ? Why did the RNC agree to left wing moderators, like Crowley?
Call your House Rep, or Senator.
I think it was Ben Franklin that said, ‘best remain silent and be thought of a fool. Then to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Romney should give the babbling idiot the whole 90 minutes next time. Just hand him a shovel and say please defend the Last 4 years to the American People.
She must have overlooked the one to Obama that read “I am afraid you are like Karl Marx......’
Probably got messy with pizza grease or smeared with a Ho ho.
two doesn’t show a trend but 3 does.
There's a reason republicans are called "the Stupid Party"...
This is going to sound sexist, but it has occurred to me that both cakcle and smirk Biden and little barry bastard boy have had to hide behind a woman’s skirt in these debates to even try and break even in a debate! And what a mass to hide behind Candy Crowdly gives little barry!
Bizarre coincidence is meant to convey the cynicism in which the Democrats control the debate process. The moderators are all for the most part members of the msm, demonstrate the most extreme prejudice and antipathy towards Republican candidates and get away with it. Why does the GOP alllow this to happen. I just don’t get it.
Of course it is no coincidence.
Nope.
Rule 3: Four out of five consecutive points fall beyond the 1σ limit (in zone B or beyond), on the same side of the centerline
There is no future in having these phony “debates” for the amusement of the Democrat media and so the Democrat moderators can try to sink the Republican nominee’s chances to win the election. Apparently, the senile RNC has a death wish.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
If the word count ever gets jpublished, I'll bet that despite 3 extra minutes for Obama, he is found to have uttered fewer words. The uhs, ahs, grunts, and long pauses from Obama were agonizing last night. He'd interrupt Romney, Candy would give him the floor and then there would be dead silence from him. I wished that Romney would just jump in and finish his previous point. But, Romney was raised to be a gentleman, and Obama was raised to be a Communist.
These questions could be structured better. For example,the question about how will you control AK47s would go to Romney, but Obama would answer the mirror of that, something like, “what are you planning to do to protect our second amendment?”.
lets go over last night.
A debate in NY, long island and a crowd taken from that area, Crowley a lefty hack from CNN who picks the qestions and does hte time and can but in.
That is like Mark Levin doing a debate , down in rural SC and picking the questions and butting in when he wants.
I said 4 years ago that if the GOP had better stand up to the media and tey did not and still won’t.
They always back down to the media, to the homostapo and social issues
These questions could be structured better. For example,the question about how will you control AK47s would go to Romney, but Obama would answer the mirror of that, something like, “what are you planning to do to protect our second amendment?”.
not just that.
Why not more of a mention about obama not answering the question that his energy sec states it is not their job to bring prices down.
How Michelle obama was clapping when Crowley came to her husbands defense.
How oabma lied about drilling.
How obama invests in China.
There is a whole host of issues which need to be covered.
I think it is worse than indicated. 0bummer and Candy kept interrupting Mitt. I think they counted that until 0bummer started answering.
Guess who will always back down?
We all should make a fuss about the bias moderators.
Excellent, but guess what? It will continue. Thank goodness there was baseball on at that time.
2008:
Jim Lehrer (Liberal PBS)
Tom Brokaw (Liberal NBC/General Electric)
Bob Scheiffer (Dan Rather’s CBS)
(VP Debate) Gwen Ifill (Wrote glowing Book on Obama)
2012:
Jim Lehrer (Liberal PBS)
Candy Crowley (Communist News Network)
Bob Scheiffer (Dan Rather’s CBS)
(VP Debate) Martha Raddatz (ABC w/George Stephanopoulos)
Anyone see a pattern here? All “undecided” townhall people somehow amazingly always seem eager to assist the Democrat with their “questions”.
And yet, the Stupid Party agrees to the debate format year after year.
Time to start kicking Lucy.
The mainstream media is in the bag for the President, but that’s no surprise.
The surprise is that despite the best efforts of the shills at ABC, CBS, NBC, NY Times, Et al, it isn’t working this time ‘round and it hasn’t worked a number of times in the past either. There is a general knowledge that the mainstream press is liberally slanted, and that sense has been there for some time despite the Liberal presses best efforts to ignore it. Nixon, Reagan, Bush… None of them would have been elected if it were the mainstream press making the call, and they have usually called it wrong each time a Conservative has been elected.
The American electorate is much smarter and more reasoned than the mainstream press gives them credit for, and the internet and alternative news outlets are the likely reason. Conservative slanted Fox News usually has double or triple the amount of viewers that liberally biased news outlets get, and news sites like ‘RealClearPolitics’ are actually very unbiased sources of information, offering opinions from all sides of the spectrum and it is frequented by intelligent voters from all perspectives.
If you look at the last three Democrats to get elected Presidentially Carter, Clinton and Obama, you might suspect that it was the Liberal press that helped them out and to a small degree that’s true… But the reality is this. McCain, Dole, Bush 1 and Ford were all very weak Republican candidates. Romney is not a weak candidate and that scares the heck out of the Democrats and their buddies in the media. His chances for being elected are really quite good, because in the end, Americans can figure out the weak from the strong and Obama is very weak in comparison to Romney.
The press did their darnedest to make Romney look weak, but that first debate washed away that falsehood and when the American electorate has the choice between a strong Conservative and a weak Liberal, they always choose the Conservative.
3 debates...
They get to pick one mod (instead of the three they pick now),
the Repubs get to pick one mod (Mark Levin would be the offset for “Candy”),
and one drawn out of a hat of equal numbers of mods put into the hat by both campaigns.
Three do show a trend. That’s always been a rule. Unless you are talking about something else.
What about the Biden/Ryan debate? Does the time that Biden ran his mouth interrupting Ryan when Ryan was speaking count as Ryan’s time?
For a symmetric data set (One where negative and positive numbers are possible) the rules are:
In no case do three or fewer points trigger an out of control alarm until you get beyond 2σ.
Three points define a plane to a mathematician, or a line to an engineer, but don't quite suffice for a trend under Western Electric control chart rules.
That being said, I start to watch a process very closely when three consecutive points are on the same area...
You HAVE to give the black man more time or else you’rrrrrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRACIST!!!!!!
Why aren’t Republicans demanding equal time?
> Democrats Get More Time in All Three Debates
Entitlement.
How are negative minutes a possibility? Only positive are possible.
How are negative minutes a possibility? Only positive are possible.
You really think so? I know many here would disagree with that, myself included.
Good Excellent question!
Depends on how you define it.
What we are really interested in here isn't the absolute number of minutes each candidate gets in debates. That would get very complicated very quickly given differing over all lengths of the debates and times spent asking questions and covering procedural matters.
Easiest to compare and determine biases by tracking percentages of time democrat vs republican.
Set the scale at democrat time-republican time. With a perfectly balanced debate time, the times would be equal: d-r=0.
Democrat bias>0, Republican bias<0.
Now your chart can be symmetric.
We both agree it isn't, we're quibbling about the degree and objective verifiability of the bias.
One can always hope someone, somewhere will think "Hey this guy knows control charts, maybe we can hire him..."
Second time is coincidence.
Third time is enemy action.
..................... Auric Goldfinger
CA....
Easy answer. The GOP is out of ideas and besides who wants to listen to them anyways. Much better to hear the Democrats that tell us all the stuff we actually want to hear.
Ambassador Bolton was just on FoxNews. He asked Kelly what was the name of the Lincoln/Douglas debate moderator. It was a trick question. There wasn’t one.
He suggested they didn’t need to have one.
They agree what topics to address before the event. They each get time to say what they want. Other parameters could be agree to as well.
Then, 3, 2, 1, debate...
Not a bad idea. Perhaps we should get twenty years of only Conservative moderators first... to even things out.
That is true if you assume you are starting with an unbiased coin/event etc. If you know there will likely be a bias in the outcome then its a safe bet you don't need more events.
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