Ohio to join Georgia GOP as host of March 1 debate
In a move likely to ensure that no candidate will skip it, the Georgia Republican party this morning announced that it would partner with the Ohio GOP to host the March 1 debate of presidential candidates prior to Super Tuesday.
CNN will still broadcast the event from a yet-to-be-disclosed location in Atlanta, but an assembly in Ohio will be allowed to pose questions via a livestream feed. The March 6 Super Tuesday vote is heavy with Southern states, including Georgia. But the two-state partnership will give the debate a more national cast.
Moreover, while one candidate of the current four may be willing to slight Georgia and skip the staged confrontation, none are likely to snub Ohio as well.
Ohio and Georgia have the two largest caches of delegates at stake that day. “We’re more or less the two powerbrokers on Super Tuesday,” said state GOP spokesman Chris Kelleher.
A location should be settled on late this week, he said. “Different campaigns have different ideas about how large the audience should be.”
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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td
February 9th, 2012
11:00 am
I would like to see Phillips as the arena.
Cutty
February 9th, 2012
11:11 am
I’d prefer the Center for Puppetry Arts.
liberalefty
February 9th, 2012
11:13 am
will newt fly the tratiorous confederate flag
DannyX
February 9th, 2012
11:14 am
“I would like to see Phillips as the arena.”
I was thinking the big-top Georgia Dome myself, it already has a circus like atmosphere which would be perfect for the clowns debating.
I would also give it a pro-wrestling feel calling it “Republican DebateMania.” Featuring ‘Scandalist Newt” “Willard the Flopper,” “Frothy Santorum,” and NaPAULeon.
Candidates, ARE YOU READY TO FUMBLE
honested
February 9th, 2012
11:16 am
Someone suggested Phillips Arena.
With so few seats filled at such a venue, wouldn’t the echo interfere with the ability to hear the childish responses from the Clown Car Candidates?
gm
February 9th, 2012
11:17 am
Oh wow another debate, how many does this make? about 20, two hours of how Obama is messing up the country but these losers offer so solutions, but good sound bites”””
honested
February 9th, 2012
11:18 am
Since the eventual November outcome is becoming clear, will there be an adequate number of
“We’re Number Two” signs?
Marlboro Man
February 9th, 2012
11:22 am
GA is no power broker.
Ted
February 9th, 2012
11:23 am
Easy to tell the givers from the takers in terms of the comments posted. No one in their right mind, other than a yellow dog, would vote to give this hack Barack another term. Now, it may be the other guys won’t be any good either, and voted out as well, but they cannot be worse than Obama.
UGA 1999
February 9th, 2012
11:24 am
Now that Santorum has the spotlight, it is going to be interesting to watch the media attack him.
Don
February 9th, 2012
11:25 am
@ Ted…..you’ll be alright once we re-elect President Obama for another term.
GaBlue
February 9th, 2012
11:25 am
I’m with Cutty on this one. The Center for Puppetry Arts is the PERFECT venue!
Josh
February 9th, 2012
11:26 am
@ UGA 1999…..Forget about the media attacking him. What about how Romney is going to attack him? This is a Republican Primary and the candidates are clawing at each other. Why give the “liberal media” so much credit. LOL
UGA 1999
February 9th, 2012
11:28 am
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/46316454/ns/today-today_rossen_reports/
AMEN!
honested
February 9th, 2012
11:29 am
Just let sans-scrotum talk.
The terror he will elicit from the average voter will eliminate any need of attack.
Becky
February 9th, 2012
11:30 am
Gosh-I hope they bring their crazy ass gubner with them!!!
UGA 1999
February 9th, 2012
11:31 am
Josh….Because the liberal media has a track record of attacking the person in the lead. But you are also right they will fight it out in the debates.
honested
February 9th, 2012
11:37 am
uga,
If it is like everything we have seen so far, it will be more of ‘I am more of a rigid wrong wing whack job and I have less capability to govern than you!’
How did one of the two major parties fall so far?
UGA 1999
February 9th, 2012
11:37 am
honested…..”sans-scrotum”……Josh…I told you.
td
February 9th, 2012
11:38 am
You libs just crack me up. You were on these blogs day after day telling us that Barnes was going to defeat the Republican nominee and then when Deal won the nomination you were on these blogs telling us Barnes would win in a landslide. You libs were on here talking everyday about how Thurman was going to take out Johnny. What happened to those predictions?
UGA 1999
February 9th, 2012
11:38 am
Honested….I know right? The Democratic party has screwed things up so bad over the past four years I dont see how they will ever get elected again in our lifetime.
honested
February 9th, 2012
11:40 am
uga
Did you think that he had just popped out of the ground in the last 6 months.
This imbecile has a record that should scare any freedom loving American.
Centrist
February 9th, 2012
11:40 am
The Georgia primary is meaningless (unless somehow the “favorite son” who served as House Speaker loses). Furthermore, Georgia is an open primary where Democrats can be mischievous. The Georgia media and politicians are ignoring these facts in order to draw as much attention as possible.
Ohio is a battleground state in the general election in November, so it will get close attention from all.
DannyX
February 9th, 2012
11:41 am
“You were on these blogs day after day telling us that Barnes was going to defeat the Republican nominee and then when Deal won the nomination you were on these blogs telling us Barnes would win in a landslide.”
That is a complete lie. I don’t remember one person on this blog ever claiming Barnes would win. You are making things up again td.
UGA 1999
February 9th, 2012
11:42 am
honested….Nope but I will be happy to discuss his record with you. As well as Obama’s record.
What is it about Santorum’s record would you like to discuss?
UGA 1999
February 9th, 2012
11:43 am
DannyX……Just because you “dont remember” does not mean it did not happen.
td
February 9th, 2012
11:43 am
honested
February 9th, 2012
11:40 am
You are a progressive and as such you know “Freedom loving” is only a ruse tactic in your vocabulary because you can not have government control and freedom at the same time.
Tom
February 9th, 2012
11:43 am
I will vote in November for whichever of the remaining GOP candidates gets the nomination…..unless it’s Santorum.
Becky
February 9th, 2012
11:45 am
I just wonder where Ricky has his boy toy hidden.
Becky
February 9th, 2012
11:46 am
Anyone this obsessed with homosexuality is living a lie about being straight.
UGA 1999
February 9th, 2012
11:47 am
Tom….Why not Santorum….Please explain.
Tom
February 9th, 2012
11:49 am
Becky, I actually have no doubt Rick Santorum is heterosexual.
That one son that keeps showing up on stage with him in the sweater vest, however……
Centrist
February 9th, 2012
11:50 am
Hilarious to read revisionist history about winning predictions for Barnes here. There were all sorts of Jim Gallaway blogs and comments and references to the Democratic biased polls as to how Barnes was within the margin of error, in striking distance, gaining momentum and would be a surprise winner. Several of us laughed at such blogs and posts.
Look before you leap...
February 9th, 2012
11:51 am
Current polling in OH has Newt slightly edging Romeny and Santorum in a very close 3rd.
Will be interesting to see how that trends over the next few weeks.
Romney has to attack two fronts now, he can’t focus his attack ads on a single opponent
MrLiberty
February 9th, 2012
11:54 am
Given Ohio’s past history in vote rigging for Bush, I can only imagine that their inclusion in this one will be to somehow be part of the on-going conspiracy to rig the votes against Ron Paul. It is truly sad that videos and stories about vote rigging in Iowa and Nevada are all over the internet and yet the mainstream media refuses to cover the issue. Of course they are part of the conspiracy against the freedom movement that Ron Paul is leading to take back this country from the banking, media, and corporate cartel so it is little wonder.
double
February 9th, 2012
11:54 am
I’m sticking with Newt he represents more of what we have in Ga than any of others.
Becky
February 9th, 2012
11:56 am
I have often wondered how these naroow minded christians would react if their son came out or their daughter came home pregnant by someone outside her race.
Becky
February 9th, 2012
11:56 am
Ron Paul just wants to legalize pot. There is his base.
Ned
February 9th, 2012
11:59 am
Santorum can kiss the pro-contraceptive vote good-bye (just about all women). However, he’ll capture the fetus in a jar on your coffee table is not wierd voting block.
Tom
February 9th, 2012
11:59 am
UGA, Santorum is the worst of both worlds.
He’s a big-spending big-government non-con AND a theocrat. He wants to use my money to fund more bureaucracy then he wants to turn around and bass ter dyes the Constitution to try to make me live my life in line with his interpretation of the dogma of his favorite deity.
Heck, I’ll take 4 more of the marxist before that. Even a marxist can be compromised with. How do you compromise with someone convinced everything he does is in the name of and on behalf of a myth?
liberalefty
February 9th, 2012
12:00 pm
how to make racist conservative whites love abortion…; let their daughters get impregnated by a black man…then you’ll see an about face real fast…lol
Ned
February 9th, 2012
12:00 pm
Becky,
They’d make them gargle with bleach…
liberalefty
February 9th, 2012
12:01 pm
if u want less government intrution then vote democrat…at least they dont want to control a womans womb
UGA 1999
February 9th, 2012
12:01 pm
Tom….”big spending-big government” You mean like Obama. Actually I disagree.
UGA 1999
February 9th, 2012
12:02 pm
liberalefty…..YOU WIN THE AWARD….FIRST PERSON TO BUST OUT THE WORD “RACIST” TODAY!!! HA GREAT!
UGA 1999
February 9th, 2012
12:02 pm
Liberalefty….”They dont want to control a womans womb”……Really have you read the Obamacare bill?
liberalefty
February 9th, 2012
12:04 pm
the repubs want to control a womans reproductive rights in accordance with the bible…sad indeed
Becky
February 9th, 2012
12:04 pm
uga 1999-we will wait. go look up obtuse.
liberalefty
February 9th, 2012
12:05 pm
uga1999
thanks dude, how u like the truth?…lol
liberalefty
February 9th, 2012
12:05 pm
hey repubs ..leave womens womb alone..