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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLindsey Graham and Bobby Jindal could be out as GOP limits first debate to top 10 hopefuls
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/lindsey-graham-and-bobby-jindal-could-be-out-as-gop-limits-first-debate-to-top-10-hopefuls/Fox News, which will host the debate with Facebook, said on Wednesday that contenders seeking to participate must place in the top 10 of an average of the five latest national polls as recognized by the network leading up to Aug. 4....
In a realclearpolitics.com average of Republican presidential polls so far, the top 10 contenders were former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, retired physician Ben Carson, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, former Texas Governor Rick Perry and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum.
Those on the outside looking in were Ohio Governor John Kasich, former Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Officer Carly Fiorina, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham.
Poor Booby.
CincyDem
(6,356 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)Romeo.lima333
(1,127 posts)Johonny
(20,846 posts)because the more we know about a GOP train-wreck candidate the less we like them.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)CC should get fantastic ratings out of this.
Bachmann should do the play-by-play.
Xolodno
(6,390 posts)...they should run as Independents. All the way till the election.
dembotoz
(16,802 posts)Not being snotty, but in the past I have become fond of and backed some really dark horses.
If I were gop and I am not...I would probably be backing someone who did not make the cut and I would b pissed
randome
(34,845 posts)Oh, wait, never mind. You're right.
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DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)They should have to sit in the corner with dunce caps or refill the debaters glasses with water.
It has to burn a sitting governor and senator to have their place taken by a physician who decided he wants to be POTUS.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)and will pissed enough to stop watching.
OR
If they are so ensnared and entrapped, theat they will think Fox is narrowing the field for the best interests of the GOp and they blindly go along with it.
olddots
(10,237 posts)Well the show must go on unfortunately .