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Title: Rand Paul poised to make the cut for main debate stage
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Politico
URL Source: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/ ... -paul-main-stage-debate-218230
Published: Jan 26, 2016
Author: Daniel Strauss and Steven Shepard
Post Date: 2016-01-26 17:43:13 by Hondo68
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Rand Paul did not participate at all in the last debate after he fell short of qualifying for the main stage. | AP Photo Sen. Rand Paul is poised to make his return to the main-stage Republican presidential debate on Thursday. The cutoff for the polls that will be used to decide which candidates qualify for the main stage and which are bumped down to the undercard debate is 5 p.m. Tuesday. The Paul campaign earlier in the day announced a conference call “with political reporters this evening to discuss the 2016 election cycle, Iowa caucus, and upcoming RNC/Fox News debate.” Fox News has set the same criteria for qualification as last week’s Fox Business News debate: the top six candidates in national polls, plus any other candidates in the top five in either Iowa or New Hampshire. Those rankings are determined by averages of the five most recent national polls conducted by live telephone interviewers. According to POLITICO’s calculations, while Paul is outside the top six nationally, the Kentucky senator is currently tied for fifth place in Iowa with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush at an average of 4 percent. Moreover, if another Iowa survey is released prior to Fox’s 5 p.m. deadline, the oldest poll that would drop out of the average is a Loras College poll that has Bush at 6 percent and Paul at 3 percent — making it even easier for Paul stay tied with Bush or leap-frog him. The rest of the main debate stage is expected to include the seven candidates who also made it last time: Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, Jeb Bush, Chris Christie and John Kasich. Top Paul officials were optimistic Tuesday morning that he would also make the main-stage debate. “Looking good,” Paul campaign manager Chip Englander told POLITICO. “Our belief is that the next poll to be dropped would actually be Jeb’s best. So the last few polls we were in a bit of a precarious situation because we were losing polls that were good for us. But they were being replaced with polls that were equally good, so that was fine.” Paul did not participate at all in the last debate after he fell short of qualifying for the main stage. Paul refused to participate in the undercard event, saying he had a “top-tier” campaign that deserved to be only on the main stage. Poster Comment: The bad news is that Megyn Kelly will be there calling him a sexist pig, and shilling for Hillary and Lindsey Graham again. 
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The participants qualifying for the prime-time, 9 p.m. ET debate are: Billionaire businessman Trump; Texas Sen. Ted Cruz; Florida Sen. Marco Rubio; retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson; New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie; former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush; Ohio Gov. John Kasich; and Kentucky Sen. Paul. The participants qualifying for the earlier, 7 p.m. ET debate are: Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina; former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee; former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum; and former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore. The lineup reflects a polling boost for Paul A small win for Paul. Somewhat diminished by having Gilmore get back onstage in the undercard debate.
Third place is my guess.
For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:6-8)
With the field split so much and college in session, I think it possible for Trump to fall flat. Paul might surge to a second, so could several other candidates. It's still hard to bet against Cruz and Trump taking the top two spots. And that "third ticket out of Iowa" is a greatly overrated, mostly by news anchors and pundits trying to promote their lame-ass debates and boring election night coverage. "But the real question tonight for our viewers is: who will get that coveted third ticket out of Iowa, to live to fight another day, blah-blah-blah." And that will set us up for a new round of questions for the fourth, fifth, sixth, etc. finishers of the variety, "Well you lost Iowa so why don't you just drop out already?". It's as predictable as clockwork.
Indeed and very tiring. Iowa GOP results ended in a virtual three way tie. So that made things a bit interesting. No surprise a "Paul" was in that three way battle. For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:6-8)
It was a virtual tie between Santorum and Romney with Ron Paul several percent behind. However, by taking advantage of every arcane rule and playing to win in the later county conventions and state GOP organization, they virtually seized control of the Iowa GOP and Ron Paul got the most Iowa delegates, 22. The Iowa GOP has corrected this. They've changed the rules and the Paul faction is mostly gone from state GOP leadership. So Rand can't hope to get his Iowa delegates the same way that Dear Old Dad did. : ) FNC just had a Rand interview where he really went nuclear on Trump. Very funny stuff and pretty mean too ("without Donald, the average IQ on stage at the debate will be 20 or 30 points higher..."). He went on at some length. We really need to find a YouBoob of Rand's blast at The Donald. He was on fire.
Haven't seen that one yet, but Rand's NH campaign office was broken into. Probably just Trump and Cruz looking for some original ideas... Yep, that's the one. For a sweet little doctor, Rand is kinda mean. LOL Notice the stretch at 01:48 on where FNC put titling "Paul: Donald Trump Should Be Participating In Debate", exactly the opposite of his good-riddance remarks about the Amazing Donaldo. FNC surprisingly often has outright lies on those chyron text overlays. You can catch them in at least a dozen major boners like this a year, maybe more.
Or...Christie looking for some free snacks. For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:6-8)
The lineup graphic sure looks different without Trump, and with Cruz in the center position. It'd look a lot better without Jeb and Rubio! www.foxnews.com/politics/...ate-candidate-lineup.html
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#2. To: hondo68 (#1)
#3. To: hondo68 (#0)
#4. To: redleghunter (#3)
#5. To: TooConservative (#4)
It's as predictable as clockwork.
#6. To: redleghunter, hondo68 (#5)
No surprise a "Paul" was in that three way battle.
#7. To: TooConservative (#6)
FNC just had a Rand interview where he really went nuclear on Trump.
BREAKING: Rand Paul Presidential Campaign Office Burglarized, Computers Stolen
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#8. To: redleghunter, TooConservative, a substantive debate (#5)
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#9. To: hondo68, redleghunter (#8)
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#10. To: hondo68, TooConservative (#7)
Rand's NH campaign office was broken into. Probably just Trump and Cruz looking for some original ideas...
#11. To: redleghunter (#10)
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
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