{"id":22850,"date":"2015-05-21T12:25:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T16:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=22850"},"modified":"2015-05-21T12:25:50","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T16:25:50","slug":"more-gop-debate-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22850\/more-gop-debate-improvements\/","title":{"rendered":"More GOP Debate Improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Add Daniel Henninger to the list of <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2015\/05\/18\/fix-the-gop-presidential-debates-with-this-one-simple-trick\/\" target=\"_blank\">conservatives offering up new ideas<\/a> to get the most out of the upcoming GOP presidential debates.<\/p>\n<p>With as many as 19 Republicans possibly running for president, \u201csomething more is needed this time\u201d than just a one-size-fits-all gabfest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to the traditional debates, the candidates or their supporters should underwrite a series of smaller debates\/conversations,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/hillary-vs-19-republicans-1432161456\" target=\"_blank\">writes Henninger<\/a>. \u201cDivide the 19 into groups of four or five candidates, randomly selected. Pick the issues, and go at it. Give voters a chance to see who these mostly interesting people are and how their minds work outside the confines of a 60-second timer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In my column this week I lay out a proposal to randomly <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/2599-a-new-format-for-gop-presidential-debates\" target=\"_blank\">assign candidates into debating pairs<\/a> so debaters can get more than the usual four to six minutes to speak. Henninger\u2019s idea to put groups of four or five together may be more workable with such a large field. Either way, the key is to give every candidate sufficient time to make his or her case for the nomination.<\/p>\n<p>There are several ideas for improving the quality of debate this go around. Let\u2019s hope the people in charge of the process take some of them to heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add Daniel Henninger to the list of conservatives offering up new ideas to get the most out of the upcoming GOP presidential debates. With as many as 19 Republicans possibly running for president, \u201csomething more is needed this time\u201d than just a one-size-fits-all gabfest. \u201cIn addition to the traditional debates, the candidates or their supporters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3887,1972,615,57],"class_list":["post-22850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-3887","tag-debate","tag-gop","tag-rnc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22853,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22850\/revisions\/22853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}