Charlie Gibson to Moderate Back-to-Back NH Presidential Debates
It's that time of the year when, all across New York, even more TV anchors, producers, and news crews are getting ready to pack up their bags and head out to the frontlines of the presidential campaigns.
That group includes, ABC's Charlie Gibson, who will soon be heading out to New Hampshire.
On Saturday, January 5, Mr. Gibson will be moderating back-to-back Democratic and Republican presidential debates at the campus of Saint Alselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. Mr. Gibson will be joined in the questioning by WMUR-TV anchor and political director Scott Spradling.
The 90-minute debates will air nationally on ABC beginning with the Republicans at 7:00 p.m, and followed by the Dems at 8:45.
In keeping with the recently announced Facebook-ABC partnership, Facebook users will be invited to participate in so-called "Debate Groups," coinciding with the back-to-back debates.
In a press release announcing the event, ABC News president David Westin said: "Coming on the heels of the Iowa caucuses, these back-to-back primetime events will let voters in New Hampshire and throughout the country see the candidates challenge each other at a moment in the campaign when the stakes couldn't be higher."
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Charlie,
I am a grandmother and I want you to address the importance of the carnage of american and Iraq citizens and military.
I have been reading Kennedys themes and he had stressed over and over the global view rather than just america first.
Please address this. We as a planet are dying every day. Please let these people be heard.
Sincerely,
Carol Sussman
What a shame, what a CRIME that media sponsors get the right to knock off some candidates before the debate, before the balloting.
What have we sunk to in these United States!? Fifth place in Iowa with ten percent and Ron Paul is SCRATCHED from the NH debate!? OutRAGEOUS!!! Kucinich, the BEST candidate for the issues people care about and winner of post-debate polls on-line, Dennis Kucinich, SCRATCHED FROM THE NH DEBATE!!??? OUTRAGEOUS!!!
Charlie Gibson should hang his head in shame. ABC should have its licence challenged.
Charlie Gibson - You did an outstanding job handling the debates. My husband and I watched the whole program. We wish, in retrospect, that the same questions had been addressed to all the candidates regardless of political affiliation. We are less interested in which party a candidate represents, and more interested in the candidate and his views. Also, it is a real turn off when a candidate vilifies the President in office. Whoever is elected to take that office will make the best decisions he can with the information that is available. You asked some great questions and handled the candidates with humor and compassion. Lynn from Kokomo, IN