{"id":12540,"date":"2015-11-05T14:18:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T19:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=12540"},"modified":"2017-07-11T10:45:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T15:45:18","slug":"your-money-your-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2015\/11\/05\/your-money-your-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Your Money, Your Vote’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Governor_of_Louisiana_Bobby_Jindal_at_CPAC_2015_by_Michael_S._Vadon_11<\/a>\u201cYour Money, Your Vote: The Republican Presidential Debate\u201d aired Wednesday October 28 on CNBC featuring moderators Carl Quintanilla, Becky Quick and John Harwood in Boulder, Colorado. Despite topically being labeled as an economic debate, the high-lights of the evening came after a majority of the candidates espousing dissatisfaction at the moderators\u2019 collective professionalism and integrity.<\/p>\n

Texas Senator Ted Cruz received the largest round of applause after he fired off to the moderators. The upset that began what Fox News has comically coined as the \u201cCruz Missile\u201d was a question from Quintanilla: \u201cCongressional Republicans, Democrats and the White House are about to strike a compromise that would raise the debt limit, prevent a government shutdown, and calm financial markets of the fear that a Washington crisis is on the way. Does your opposition to it show you’re not the kind of problem-solver that American voters want?”. Cruz responded, \u201cLet me say something at the outset. The questions that have been asked so far in this debate illustrate why the American people don\u2019t trust the media.\u201d Many noted that Cruz spoke with a different, more energetic air about him than at previous debates.<\/p>\n

Cruz continued his rebuttal, \u201cThis is not a cage match. And you look at the questions\u2014\u2018Donald Trump, are you a comic book villain?\u2019 \u2018Ben Carson, can you do math?\u2019 \u2018John Kasich, will you insult two people over here?\u2019 \u2018Marco Rubio, why don\u2019t you resign?\u2019 \u2018Jeb Bush, why have your numbers fallen?\u2019 How about talking about the substantive issues?\u201dAll of Cruz\u2019s remarks were in specific reference to real debate questions proposed to the candidates that evening. The opening question, poised by Quinanilla? \u201cWhat\u2019s your biggest weakness?\u201d Kasich took his time to express deep concern over his perception of the Amercian people\u2019s likelihood to elect and support someone who Kasich believes to be largely unqualified. Kasich was not alone in dodging the question either entirely or in some degree.<\/p>\n

Fiorina humored the remarks that she does not smile enough. Carson responded, \u201cThe weakness would be not really seeing myself in that position until hundreds of thousands of people began to tell me that I needed to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Throughout the debate the moderators displayed questionable ability to both regulate and steer candidates with repeated questionable speeches well over permitted time and suspected bias in their selection and choice of tone.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the largest blunder occurred when Quick questioned Trump on his position on the H-1B visa and a supposed reference to Rubio as Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s \u201cpersonal senator\u201d as Rubio expressed support in his immigration policy for the H-1B visa. \u201cI never said that. I never said that,\u201d Trump said. Quick apologized quickly and Trump questioned the fact checking ability of the moderators.<\/p>\n

However, Quick was too quick on the draw. The reference to Rubio is indeed on the Trump campaign website. Megyn Kelly, a Fox News figure and debate host who had her own infamous exchanges with<\/p>\n

Trump, took to twitter to express her sentiments on Quick\u2019s debate performance<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is why [you] never ask a like this [without] having your source material at the ready,\u201d Kelly tweeted.<\/p>\n

Users on social media also noted the phrasing of the debate questions. \u201cSenator Cruz, working women in this country still earn just 77 percent of what mean earn. And I know that you\u2019ve said you\u2019ve been very sympathetic to our cause. But you\u2019ve also said that the Democrat\u2019s moves to try and change this are the political show votes. I just wonder, what would you do as President to try and help in this cause?\u201d<\/p>\n

Quick injected herself into the question, a potential indicator of her position on an issue interfering with her ability to perform in an unbiased, journalistic manner. Quick also received backlash online and on several news outlets Thursday October 29 on her potentially misleading phrasing in the same question. \u201cWomen in this country still earn just 77 percent of what men earn\u201d may paint an inaccurate picture of economic reality when discrimination is illegal and unconstitutional by sex. The statistic Quick means to mention is one that measured the total amount of money earned by men cumulatively, and the total sum of money earned by women cumulatively.<\/p>\n

Presenting the claim that women earn just 77 percent of what men earn is only true if and only if the statistic specifically and only presents that information with the conditions of which the statistic was formed\u2014one that did not compare the prosperity of men and women individually or allot for the individual differences between persons.<\/p>\n

Additional information, like how the Bureau of Labor Statistics found men work on average 7 more hours a week than full time women, meaning that the total sum of money earned would be higher for the male who worked more hours in the year at the same wage of that of a female worker.\"download\"<\/a><\/p>\n

With those pieces of information deliberately or unintentionally left out, Quick\u2019s statement came off as yet another \u201cgotcha\u201d question to the candidates. However, Fiorina and Cruz answered Quick.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe median wage for women has dropped $733,\u201d Cruz said in reference to the Obama presidency\u2019s impact on women. \u201cThe truth of the matter is, big government benefits the wealthy, it benefits the lobbyists, it benefits the giant corporations. And the people who are getting hammered are small businesses, its single moms, its Hispanics. That is who I\u2019m fighting for. The people that Washington\u00a0leaves behind.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cruz is only off by a few dollars. The Bureau of Labor Statistics measured that the annual income for women dropped by $705 between 2008 and 2014, accounting for inflation. Cruz was not the only candidate to bring up the Obama administration\u2019s effect on women.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecky, it is the height of hypocrisy for Mrs. Clinton to talk about being the first woman President, when every single policy she espouses and every single policy of President Obama has been demonstrably bad for women,\u201d Fiorina said.<\/p>\n

Quintanilla asked Rubio to explain why he\u2019s skipping more votes while running for president. \u201cWhy not slow down, get a few more things done first or least finish what you start,\u201d Quintanilla said. After expressing his view that \u201cthe time to act is now,\u201d Rubio was met with another questionably phrased comment from the moderators that evening.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo when the Sun-Sentinel says Rubio should resign, not rip us off..when they say you act like you hate your job, do you?\u201d Quintanilla said.Bush used the opportunity to confront Rubio. \u201cI\u2019m a constituent of the senator and I helped him and I expected that he would do constituent service, which means that he shows up to work\u2026when you signed up for this, this was a six-year term, and you should be showing up to work, Bush said.<\/p>\n

Rubio listed Democratic and Republican examples of Senators that made presidential runs that missed similar or more of their votes\u2014like John Kerry at more than sixty percent\u2014before addressing Bush directly. \u201cThe only reason why you\u2019re [focusing on] it now is because we\u2019re running for the same position, and someone has convinced you that attacking me is going to help you,\u201d Rubio said. The crowd erupted with applause.<\/p>\n

Paul, Huckabee, and Christie all had their hit or miss opportunities. Christie left the largest impression of the low percentage candidates when he too joined fellow candidates in going after the media and moderators.<\/p>\n

Quintanilla asked Bush about \u201cdaily fantasy sports\u201d and roundabout gambling in both the abstract and the gaming variety, where after Bush touted his 7-0 record in the fantasy league as of last Wednesday night, he went into other things.<\/p>\n

Christie joined in \u201cCarl, are we really talking about getting government involved in fantasy football?\u201d\u201cWe have \u2014 wait a second, we have $19 trillion in debt. We have people out of work. We have ISIS and al Qaeda attacking us. And we\u2019re talking about fantasy football? Can we stop?\u201d Christie\u2019s remarks were met with another round of loud applause.<\/p>\n

Harwood also gave Christie his other high light of the evening, where the moderator picked Christie\u2019s brain on his departure from the standard conservative belief on Climate Change. Harwood continuously, substantively interrupted Christie.<\/p>\n

After some crosstalk, Christie finally made his remark. \u201cJohn, do you want me to answer or do you want to answer? How are we going to do this? Because, I\u2019ve got to tell you the truth, even in New Jersey what you\u2019re doing is called rude.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump snapped at the moderators as well, particularly when Quintanilla presented his question with a harsh tone and by suggesting Donald Trump is a real-life super villain. \u201cThat\u2019s not a very nice way to ask a question,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

Trump fired off at Kasich when he made his own remarks to Trump, but displayed a much calmer demeanor than the previous debate.\u00a0The chair of the RNC has denounced NBNC, tweeting that the organization should \u201cbe ashamed of itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Every candidate has since filed complaints formally about the debate. The next debate is 9p.m. Eastern<\/p>\n

Time on Fox who partnered with the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n

Barton Kleen<\/strong>
\nManaging Editor<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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