Republicans Lead off ABC News, WMUR-TV and Facebook Back-To-Back Debates in New Hampshire
EmailABC News’ Tahman Bradley Reports: The Republican presidential candidates will take the stage first at the ABC News, WMUR-TV and Facebook debates in New Hampshire on Saturday, Jan 5, 2008. The order was selected Wednesday night with a little Granite State flare and tradition.
Under the watchful eye of WMUR anchor and political director Scott Spradling, New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner placed two balls — one blue for the Democrats, one red for the Republicans — into a bottle and mixed them up. Mr. Gardner then positioned the bottle so that a ball would fall out – and the red ball was revealed.
The selection was modeled after the longstanding New Hampshire tradition used to break ties in primaries.
The 90 minute debates, which take place on the campus of St. Anselm in Manchester, come two days after the Iowa caucuses.
ABC’s "World News" anchor Charles Gibson will moderate with additional questions from Spradling.
The first debate, with the Republicans, airs at 7:00 pm ET/PT on the ABC Television Network with the second debate, with the Democrats, immediately following
WMUR is owned by Hearst Argyle.
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I am a former Washington Post/NewsHour foreign affairs correspondent who covered the collapse of the Soviet Union 15 years ago. Russia, and the Bush Administration’s policy toward Putin, has not been mentionned so far in the campaign. I would urge Charlie Gibson and Scott Spadling to ask the candidates in both debates what they plan to do about Russia’s use of its vast energy resources to threaten its neighbors, Putin’s slide back towards one party rule, the growing number of political prisoners, government control of the media and the American investors who lost billions of dollars when the Russian Government bankrupted the YUKOS Oil Company for political reasons, leaving Yukos shareholders in the US with absolutely nothing. Russia has arguably been one of the afnministration’s most important foreign policy failures, yet no one asks or talks about it. I urge you to raise it on Jan. 5th.
Posted by: Charles Krause | December 28, 2007, 7:43 am 7:43 am
The Federal Government (Congress) has done a worse than terrible job handling Social Security, Bankrupting it twice. How or why would any one think Congress could handle Health Care. They must be Crazy. Anything Congress touches turns to (the Brown stuff).
Posted by: Stephen Guidetti | January 5, 2008, 8:31 pm 8:31 pm
The Government (Congress) has done a worse than terrible job handling the Social Security System. How or why would any one think Congress could handle a Health Care system? I think its just another way to increase taxes to under the guise of Health Care, Congress will just throw all the money collected for the Health Care System into the General fund just like Congress currently does with the Social Security System Funds. Congress has Bankrupted the Social Security System twice, Congress passed laws to make it legal to do what is normally illegal, Jimmy Hoffa went to jail for doing exactly what Congress did. Congress borrowed all the money out of the Social Security System and replaced it with a worthless IOU and then Social Security System went Bankrupt. This will happen again in about ten years we will be complaining about the Bankrupt Health Care System. How long does the Social Security System have to be broken, as long as it will take for Congress to stop putting the money collected for the Social Security System in the general fund and start putting the money in separate protected from Congress fund, so the answer is for ever.
Posted by: Stephen Guidetti | January 5, 2008, 9:10 pm 9:10 pm