Chuck Sweeny, senior political editor for the Rockford (Illinois) Register Star, writes here that the August 6 Fox Republican presidential debate is badly planned. The top ten Republicans, based on polls, will participate.
Sweeny says that instead, Fox News should hold two debates, each with eight candidates. Random procedures should be used to determine which eight candidates are in each debate. To make the two debates equal in viewership, they should both be in the evening, so that would probably involve debates on two different evenings (Sweeny doesn’t say this but it seems to follow from what he does say). Sweeny says many polls only have 300 or so respondents and the Fox News decision is not only unfair, it is arbitrary because there continues to be a virtual tie for tenth place and also ninth place.
I speak solely for myself. We could have three debates, the top five, second five, and the remaining candidates. With eight or ten response time and question of candidates will be more limited than a smaller group. Just a thought.
I can’t wait for the Debates to be held. Donald Trump will most likely be in the top 10 candidates – unless he were to withdraw between now and then for whatever reason.
It will be interesting to see how Donald Trump handles the other 9 candidates. if they game up on him, the watchers will see the GOP Status Quo for what it is, and it will only enhance Trump’s standings in the polls.
People are slowly but surely opening their eyes. The problem is the status quo is so entrenched, it would take a revolution to shake off the shackles. The question is, are the people willing to go that far?