Debate speaking times

Posted: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 4:39 PM by Domenico Montanaro
Filed Under: 2008, Republican debates

From NBC's Lauren Appelbaum
With Keyes complaining about not having enough time to answer questions and then hijacking the debate, he ended up using more speaking time than the majority of the other candidates. Overall, however, there is not a huge disparity in how many questions Carolyn Washburn asked each candidate, with Giuliani and Romney answering 12 questions and Keyes eight. Although Thompson spoke the least amount of time, he was given 10 questions, including the one he refused to answer with a show of hands.

Giuliani: 9:03 during 12 answers
Huckabee: 8:56 during 11 answers
Romney: 8:52 during 12 answers
Keyes: 7:08 during 8 answers
Tancredo: 6:49 during 10 answers
Hunter: 6:42 during 9 answers
McCain: 6:34 during 9 answers
Paul: 5:36 during 9 answers
Thompson: 5:23 during 10 answers

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ABC (Sent Wednesday, December 12, 2007 4:44 PM)

I am that Ron Paul spammer guy!

Ron Paul Spammer Guy (Sent Wednesday, December 12, 2007 4:54 PM)

In response to an earlier post by Chuck Todd, and as a member of that PBS/NPR crowd" who "dislike debate fireworks," the only thing I have to say is:

STOP DISPARAGING YOUR VIEWERS AND REPORT THE NEWS.

As for Alan Keyes, I was actually a bit impressed by his style. His rhetoric, of course, was ridiculous.

Most people would have found this "boring," since attention spans, both in this country and in the national media are quite short. And, a lot of specifics were mentioned, most of which I opposed, naturally.

Perhaps Mr. Todd would like to run for president instead? He sure does write like a campaign advisor, as well as speak as one.

M, Saint Paul, Minn. (Sent Wednesday, December 12, 2007 4:55 PM)

All that talking and they said nothinh at all. For example:

“The sacrifice we need from the American people is saying, ‘Let the programs go that don’t work. Don’t lobby for them forever,’” said Romney."

Why wouldn't he add that the costliest program for us Americans is Israel which cost us not only trillions of dollars in wars we wage for them but also tens of thousands of our soldiers lives worldwide. If we are ever to return to financial safehaven with the rise of China we better kill the zionist lobby that goes on and on and on. No mention of this by Romney and all the others!!

Johnny Woe, Seattle, Wash. (Sent Wednesday, December 12, 2007 5:12 PM)

Who won the Des Moines Register Republican Debate in Iowa?

http://www.youpolls.com/details.asp?pid=1286

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PollM, Dallas TX (Sent Wednesday, December 12, 2007 5:19 PM)

Fred Rules.
DMR droolz.

Fred Thompson Spammer Guy (Sent Wednesday, December 12, 2007 5:25 PM)

Looks like the Ron Paul automated spambot is cranking out the CPUs on You Polls. 82+% say he won??? Yeah, right.
Fred did great; short, concise answers are a mark of principle and conviction

Mike O (Sent Wednesday, December 12, 2007 6:01 PM)

5 minutes 36 seconds of sanity during the circus/dog and pony show.

Steve A Jonesboro IN (Sent Wednesday, December 12, 2007 6:57 PM)

What's the matter Mike O?
Scared that Ron Paul, who is the only one who has his head on straight, might win the nomination?
The media and the elite are running scared so I guess you might as well join them

mike, hull, iowa (Sent Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:30 PM)

Haha.. people still believe that its spammers responsible for Ron Paul's online poll numbers. Its amusing to know that you don't believe I'm a real person.

Brian, Melbourne, FL (Sent Thursday, December 13, 2007 10:07 AM)

Johnny Woe,
Watch yourself because you have just said a lie. Israel is the sole democracy in the Middle East. It has a military that abides by the rules the courts there set down for them; as in you can't do that! As to China, the best way we can face them is not to buy from them. We need to bring back factories to the U.S. That is the best way to do; not by cutting off an ally like Israel. We'd have to worry about a nuclear Iraq if the Israelis hadn't stuck the nuclear reactor there.

S.B. Stein E.B. NJ (Sent Friday, December 14, 2007 12:47 PM)

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