We’re waiting…
It will be interesting to see how Fox explains this.
Fox’s decision to exclude Paul, if indeed that remains their course of action, raises a number of key questions. To begin, how can the candidate likely to raise more funds than any other candidate in the final quarter of the primary cycle be excluded from a key debate? If the answer to that question relies on polling figures, how can it be ignored that many of the invitees rank behind Paul in the key early-primary states?
One answer might come from national polling figures, where Paul has consistently been ranked in single digits. Yet once again these polls offer no indication that Paul is out of the race. With 14% of respondents declaring themselves undecided, and the current leader at only 19%, Paul’s standing of 6% does not preclude him from success, especially when considering the poll’s 4 point margin of error, which places Paul in a statistical tie with Thompson, McCain and Romney on the national level.
Even the boldest of political analysts would be remiss to predict with any certainty which candidate will emerge as the victor in the coming GOP primary race, and considering the volatility of the early primary landscape, the same can be said for predicting who will come in last, and certainly for who should be marginalized in the coming debates.
It is thus laid upon the Fox Network to justify its decision to exclude Paul or clarify why he is the last to receive an invitation to the debate.
It seems obvious to me that Fox News is INTENTIONALLY attempting to torpedo Ron Paul’s campaign efforts in the state of New Hampshire — the one state that most thinking people would agree is Dr. Paul’s greatest hope for early success. I smell a lawsuit.
Comment by Dennis Johnson — December 30, 2007 @ 3:25 am EST