The final GOP debate before this Saturday's South Carolina Republican primary will take place tonight from Charleston, South Carolina. This debate is sponsored by CNN and the Southern Republican Leadership Conference. We will see just four candidates on stage since Rick Perry has dropped out this morning.
Air Time: Thursday, January 19 at 8pm ET on CNN
Full Video: Video: Watch the full CNN Southern Republican Debate
Participants: Romney, Gingrich, Santorum, Paul (Perry has dropped out)
Rick Perry barely qualified for this debate and it appears that CNN went out of its way to make sure he met the criteria. More on this from Politico:
CNN's Sam Feist calls to say that contrary to the report by Talking Points Memo, Rick Perry has met the criteria for the debate on January 19. Per CNN criteria, a candidate qualifies for the debate if he averages 7 percent in three national polls in 2012. Feist says that Perry averages at least 7 percent based on a Gallup poll from January 3, a CBS poll from January 9, and a Reuters/Ipsos poll from January 10.
In the Gallup poll published January 3, Perry received 7 percent.
In the CBS poll published January 9, Perry received 6 percent AND 7 percent.*
In the Reuters/Ipsos poll published January 10, Perry received 7 percent.
*The source for all the confusion: When CBS published the results of its poll on January 9, it listed Rick Perry at 6 percent. However, the full release shows that Perry received 6 percent when those surveyed had an option to choose "Someone Else," and received 7 percent when those surveyed did not have that option. Because Perry received 7 percent in the latter poll, he qualifies for the CNN debate in South Carolina… by the skin of his teeth.
So Perry just got his toe in the door on this one which still leaves him in OK standing. The fact that he nearly missed the cutoff doesn't bode well for him.
The real story line of this debate will focus on Romney and the attacks being leveled by the remaining candidates. Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul will need to give strong performances if they hope to garner some more votes to dig out of second place and right now it appears Gingrich is making some headway.
Update
Rick Perry has ended his 2012 candidacy, see this post for details.
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Zodac Paet obviously didn't read the post above before commenting..
Sadly, i don't think the masses are ready for libertarianism, even though we are the furthest from what our forefathers imagines America should be. The masses are still being deceived by the bread and circuses.
Read the posts above by Surfisher (January 19, 2012 at 5:44 am).
We are almost no longer a Constitutional Republic, fallen down to a Democracy (a word which, by the way, appears no where in the Constitution or any founding document). Soon to fall to Tyranny through Progressives' idea of a utopia (Socialism, which has failed in every instance throughout history).
When was the last time you saw a law created that said what you CAN do? I bet it was 222 and a half years ago. 40,000 new laws this year which say what you CAN'T do.
Do you really stand for Liberty and Freedom?
Ask yourself again, do you REALLY believe in freedom and individual liberty?
Or is that too much responsibility for you to handle and you'd rather a polished politician handle all your decisions for you through millions of laws that tell you what you can't do because you are too dumb to know what is right and wrong, moral and immoral, honorable and dishonorable?
Because thinking for yourself and actually making good social and financial decisions in your life that will make you a successful person is too hard, too much work? Makes your poor wittle brain hurt?
Read Thomas Paine's "Common Sense". Our forefathers were the true Libertarians.
Tholin Paine
Well said!
a law created that said what you CAN do?
Right on red after stop? But then we got sucker punched with the red light cameras and the money going to Australia.
Tholin — you are 100% correct. Let's hope Ron Paul's message keeps expanding (our only chance to save the Free Republic, eventually….)
Let's hope Ron Paul's message keeps expanding (our only chance to save the Free Republic, eventually….)
I'd give it a slim to none chance as Americans love to fight. Then too we have the big bucks from the defense contractors backing the politicians of choice.
A for the dumb voters ….. the worse they are treated, the better they like it.
We got this 16 trillion dollar debt via smart, very smart politicians and dumb, very dumb voters.
Tholin — As of 2010 is has been estimated that there are over 500,000,000 (that is 500 million, or 1/2 billion) Laws on the books in our Nation! Of these over 99.9% are Negative Laws — stating what 1/2 billion things an American Citizen CANNOT DO upon threat of punishment. And each month tens of thousands more Negative Laws are passed!
All have heard the phrase; "Ignorance of the Law is no excuse…" (judges' favorite expression).
If one finds oneself in a Court of Law (and states: "I wasn't aware I could not do this" and the Judge states the above — hope one will have the guts and say: "This is pernicious sophism — since the absurdity, that one person can memorize over 1/2 billion laws, makes it A PERNICIOUS SOPHISM!")
Only Ron Paul is aware of this castration of Liberties by our Big Brother Government — and wants to reverse this tyrannical trend. No wonder the main media is trying for a "black-out" on his message of TRUTH! The fear the Controllers have is obvious — prevent the American People from hearing what Ron Paul has to say (is their solution)!
Will we allow them to do this to our Nation — or will we take a stand and bombard the main media with unending requests that they play fair — equal time and same questions to be answered by ALL during the debates!
main media with unending requests that they play fair
That request is sure to fall on deaf ears as regulations help stamp out competition.
Just look what it did for the auto industry. At one time we had over 80 American cr mfgs. Enter the DOT and highway safety. We now have 3 and two are government owned. Guess it was because the automobile just isn't needed anymore?????
Hello you, who reads my message!
I'm 23 years old, livin in switzerland and I follow the primary since the first day.
The reason I do, is because the USA is totally on the wrong track since the day I can remember.
The mainstream media are working with hard propaganda just as they did when there was time of dictaturship or fascism.
I just realised it again, watchin the cnn debate in south carolina. Did you see the camera changing to the broad view nearly every time dr.paul did answer a question and then the moderator walks in front of the candidates, while paul is still speaking. This is made to take attraction away from the speaker and bring the focus of the viewer to something else. It's like they were playing with bad tricks to try to make his message look unimportant.
And this is nearly the tip of the iceberg right now. Because the questions they ask are always the same, they don't want the public to be educated. They don't want them to ask questions and they don't want dr. paul as a president.
I hope this fact will give him a drive and will make americans stop listening to wrong media propaganda and start them to listen to their hearts. If you are in fact wondering why dr. paul is getting these treatments, just google him and take some hours of time to listen to what he is talking about. It's the message of peace and freedom, which is like all the religion are praying but none of them is achieving the only way to make this world go for the good! I think people just need to wake up once… if you did it its not easy to find truth but still you can get your own truth by listening to information without artificial prejudgments!
It's not about left or right ideologic, it's about secret elites which cooperate for themselves and the regular people which would be working to the better of the world if they get passioned about an issue which is important to them! Don't belive this cnn fox cbs nyt washingtonpost crap! They all suck just as most of the big media in my country do.. because they are owned by special interests and not working on the education of the people and the discloser of bad guys.
Keep it up and work hard to get the zombies back to life again !
PEACE!
Switzerland
Easy for you to say because your country has learned long ago all you haves to do is mind your own business and the world will come to your door begging you to mind theirs.
How many soldiers did Switzerland lose during WWll? Yeah right in the middle of it and we were over 3000 miles away.
I know everyone is upset that Ron Paul did not get as much time as the other candidates. Why not? The debate lets the victim of a verbal attack defend himself. Nobody can touch Ron Paul. Nobody can attack him with flip-flopping or illogical views. That is why he has less air time. He does not have to explain why he said one thing one year and a different thing another year. He says the same thing year after year. Isn't that a good thing?..that none of the other candidates have anything bad to say about him.
He says the same thing year after year. Isn't that a good thing?..
Not if you want your mug on TV. News is something new not History.
To say the least, what Newt Gingrich did in last night's debate was such an "adumbration" on Newt's part. It was the "classic case" of one "Serial Hypocrite" Politician defending himself by pointing out the "Serial Hypocrisy" of the Left-Leaning Media toward Republicans.
I believe that's what drug addicts would say is "Blame Transfer".
Were you cheering and clapping when Newt was defending himself? These "Politicians" aren't like you or I. They are CALLOUS SCUMBAGS who will SCREW YOU at every turn!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSjtnxAM1zE&context=C3b67ae0ADOEgsToPDskJW_c6OjimiEcvGWBB3sKqe
Gingrich is radioactive in the general population.
I believe that, yes, it was pretty nice of how Newt handling the question with the moderator. But I also believe that him doing so shouldn't cause people to vote him on in his candidacy. Obviously he hasn't served well with the Senate and won't do a good job for the country. And also,I don't particularly like Mitt Romney but I understood very well his points of view, and I agree. Rick Santorum did a well job of delivering his messages fluently and with quite good points. But I dont believe just because of Newt's defending himself, people shouldn't clap him on.
Obama — the next new host of Family Feud (can anyone give a total count of the women he kissed after his Misstate of the Union)?
Afterwards — Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels neutered in a very diplomatic way all the demagoguery Little Hussein parroted!
Not strong enough for me — but still kudos to Mitch!