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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRare Bipartisanship: Both Parties Don't Want Candy Crowley...
http://thepage.time.com/2012/10/14/moderator-role-under-scrutiny-before-the-debate/While an early October memorandum of understanding between the Obama and Romney campaigns and the bipartisan commission sponsoring the debates suggests CNNs Candy Crowley would play a limited role in the Tuesday night session, Crowley, who is not a party to that agreement, has done a series of interviews on her network in which she has suggested she will assume a broader set of responsibilities. As Crowley put it last week, Once the table is kind of set by the town hall questioner, there is then time for me to say, Hey, wait a second, what about x, y, z?
In the view of both campaigns and the Commission, those and other recent comments by Crowley conflict with the language the two campaigns agreed to which delineates a more limited role for the moderator of the town hall debate. The questioning of the two candidates is supposed to be driven by the audience members themselves likely voters selected by the Gallup Organization. Crowleys assignment differs from those of the three other debate moderators, who in the more standard format are supposed to lead the questioning and follow up when appropriate. The town hall debate is planned for Tuesday at 9pm ET at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY.
According to the town hall format language in the agreement, after each audience question and both two-minute responses from the candidates, Obama and Romney are expected to have an additional discussion facilitated by Crowley. Yet her participation is meant to be otherwise limited. As stated in the document: In managing the two-minute comment periods, the moderator will not rephrase the question or open a new topic .The moderator will not ask follow-up questions or comment on either the questions asked by the audience or the answers of the candidates during the debate or otherwise intervene in the debate except to acknowledge the questioners from the audience or enforce the time limits, and invite candidate comments during the 2 minute response period. The memorandum, which has been obtained by TIME, was signed by lawyers for the two campaigns on October 3, the day of the first presidential debate in Denver.
Now wouldn't we all be crestfallen if Dulce wasn't the moderator?
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goclark
(30,404 posts)Please let the Mod be Big Bird
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)teddy51
(3,491 posts)About
Cha
(297,271 posts)about Crowley... and I, like others, am not sure what the mitt campaign is concerned about candy crowley for?
begin_within
(21,551 posts)Let her talk all she wants, as long as it doesn't get into the feed.
TeamPooka
(24,228 posts)flyguyjake
(492 posts)She should be able to press the candidates for specifics and direct answers. I'm sick and tired and slimy politicians that answer questions with questions and or don't give any freaking details. eg; Mitt the Twit Romney!
Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)She was a despicable choice...but with the town hall format, it was not to be about "her" or "her" choices or questions. We don't need her partisan ass sucking up time that could be utilized by REAL people asking REAL questions.
JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)oswaldactedalone
(3,491 posts)She is vile. Her rotten attitude toward anything Democratic makes me sick and I refused long ago to watch her.