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Fox News says it has not decided which polls will be used to determine which 10 Republican presidential candidates will qualify for a primetime debate on Thursday, contrary to an earlier report.
As weve said all along, we will base the top 10 on the five most recent polls, leading up to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, the network's executive vice president, Michael Clemente, said in a statement to Politico. Since we dont know who is releasing polls, nor when that polling was done, nor the methodology, it would be impossible for anyone to know what polls will be used. Once again, all of the reporting in this story is based off of anonymous sources with zero knowledge of whats actually going on.
Citing an anonymous source with direct knowledge of Fox's plans, New York Magazine's Gabriel Sherman reported Monday that candidates would be chosen from the most recent polls conducted by Monmouth University, NBC News/Wall Street Journal, Quinnipiac University, Bloomberg, CBS/New York Times, and Fox News.
The Fox News national poll, released Monday night, found that real estate mogul Donald Trump led the field with 26 percent of Republican primary voters. He was followed by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush at 15 percent, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker at 9 percent, Dr. Ben Carson at 7 percent, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee at 6 percent each, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul at 5 percent each, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Ohio Gov. John Kasich at 3 percent each.
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Arkana
(24,347 posts)brooklynite
(94,571 posts)It's just a question of whether they're in the prime-time show or the matinee.
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)Renew Deal
(81,859 posts)Rassmussen
Real Clear Politics
Fox
etc.
And they will have exactly the candidates they want.
Johonny
(20,851 posts)They'll take cold hard cash and plenty of it.
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)Takket
(21,568 posts)any polls released in the near future will be rigged so that fox gets the top 10 they want, or at least whoever pays the biggest bribe to fox and the pollsters. we already know they will rig elections, not much of a leap to believe they will rig their own primary polls.