This, via Andrew Sullivan, is fascinating. What's particularly curious to me is that--despite all the pretense about having a 90-minute, eight person debate in order to give all of the contenders equal presence--the questions were issued and response times allocated in such a way as to allow the candidates to speak words in numbers that were, with a couple of exceptions, suspiciously proportional to their percentage positions in national polls:
- 1,872 - Senator Obama
- 1,766 - Senator Clinton
- 1,518 - Senator Edwards
- 1,281 - Governor Richardson
- 1,180 - Representative Kucinich
- 961 - Senator Biden
- 912 - Senator Dodd
- 753 - Senator Gravel
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