Tomorrow, Thursday, is the first Republican Party Debate of the 10 Republican candidates for United States President in next year's election. Televised on FOX, the candidates are:
Who ‘Belongs’ In The Fox News GOP Debate?
1. Trump 23.4%
2. Bush 12.0%
3. Walker 10.2%
4. Huckabee 6.6%
5. Carson %5.8%
6. Cruz 5.4%
6. Rubio 5.4%
8. Paul 4.8%
9. Christie 3.4%
10. Kasich 3.2%
11. Perry 1.8%
12. Santorum 1.4%
12. Jindal 1.4%
14. Fiorina 1.2%
15. Graham 0.6%
16. Pataki 0.5%
17. Gilmore 0.2%
"To determine the participants, Fox averaged together five national polls from Fox, Bloomberg, CBS, Monmouth and Quinnipiac.
And that methodology has had political scientists up in arms. The Marist Institute for Public Opinion suspended polling this week because it was worried polls were being used to make too fine of distinctions between candidates."
Source: NPR analysis of Fox, Bloomberg, CBS, Monmouth, and WSJ/NBC polling data from Real Clear Politics.
Credit: Danielle Kurtzleben/NPR
For the entire news report on this debate and the sources used to bring together the so-called top ten, please see ...
http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolit ... -arbitrary"The debates, hosted by Fox News and Facebook in conjunction with the Ohio Republican Party, will be held at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.
... But former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and several others will not be on the prime-time, 9 p.m. ET stage. The seven who did not make the top 10 will be invited to a separate 5 p.m. ET debate. Aside from Perry and Santorum, this includes Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal; former HP head Carly Fiorina; South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham; former New York Gov. George Pataki; and former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/08 ... me-debate/