Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Gary Johnson Assails CNN for New Hampshire Debate Exclusion - Uncovered Politics

Gary Johnson Assails CNN for New Hampshire Debate Exclusion - Uncovered Politics:

"Johnson, who participated in the televised debate in South Carolina on May 5 — the first Republican presidential debate of the 2012 election cycle — is being excluded from Monday’s debate because he failed to garner an average of 2 percent in national polls, or a similar percentage in state-specific polling conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center.

"Ironically, Johnson’s name wasn’t even included in some of the national polls used in the debate criteria.

"In an interview with Tucker Carlson’s The Daily Caller, the libertarian-leaning former New Mexico governor said that his exclusion was 'really disheartening' and 'really disappointing.'”

Read more: http://www.uncoveredpolitics.com/2011/06/gary-johnson-assails-cnn-for-new-hampshire-debate-exclusion/

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