[Stultis]

The ratings game, You are right, Fox probably sacrificed long term gains.

A worthy sacrifice if so, IMHO. Many new eyes and ears were exposed to the odious dwarves as a result of this being on FOX, whose audience is more conservative, middle-of-the-road or fly-over-country-traditionalist. The lefties who tuned in would tend to already be committed activists. Thus more Republicans than Dims will be energized. A miscalculation by the CBC here, as others have argued.

[CyberAnt]

"miscalculation"

I do so agree .. in fact during the "debate", several people on the live thread had checked over at DU - come to find out the people at DU were not watching .. their reasons seemed to be they couldn't stand FOX ..?? This logic escapes me ..!!