The unfairness in the debates continues
Monday, July 23, 2007
The YouTube/CNN debate tonight continued the unfairness that has been prevalent throughout the debates thus far. The so called "frontrunners" get a much larger amount of time to speak than the "lesser" candidates such as Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich. Which is extremely unfortunate because these are the candidates who are really speaking the truth on the issues whether it be Iraq, Universal Health Care, or any other issue.A great example tonight was when neither Dennis Kucinich nor Mike Gravel was given time to give an answer to a question about health care when they are the only two candidates who support true universal health care.
Below you'll see a calculation of the time given to each candidate to speak as recorded by the Chris Dodd campaign:
Barack Obama - 15:11
Hillary Clinton - 12:26
John Edwards - 10:30
Bill Richardson - 9:18
Chris Dodd - 8:39
Joe Biden - 7:05
Dennis Kucinich - 6:01
Mike Gravel - 4:10
Labels: 2008 debates
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I also spent a few hours tallying up the numbers using the CNN transcript of last nights debate:
Candidate, total exchanges, total words spoken, average words per exchange:
Obama, 14, 2050, 146
Clinton, 12, 1794, 150
Edwards, 12, 1661, 138
Biden, 7, 1019, 146
Richardson, 7, 910, 130
Dodd, 8, 1645, 206
Kucinich, 7, 985, 141
Gravel, 7, 580, 83
Its despicable.
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