Debate Time Follow-up: The CNN debate<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nThe “Greatest Democracy On Earth” (or whatever we call ourselves these days) needs to have elections based on good information and honest debate and discussion. That doesn’t happen if we only pretend to give voice to all the candidates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Great – it looks like the networks are parceling out speaking time in the debates according to candidate’s poll standings, adding yet another layer of “The rich get richer” to American politics. 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