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F_S_USATN
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« on: August 22, 2016, 01:30:46 PM »

Dickerson, Raddatz, Anderson Cooper, Gwen Ifill?

the announcement should be coming soon


predictions for who will be selected...
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F_S_USATN
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« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2016, 04:51:22 PM »

http://money.cnn.com/2016/08/24/media/debate-moderators/index.html

The Commission on Presidential Debates had planned to announce moderators in late August, but it now intends to wait until after September 5, the sources said.

The delay is due in part to an unprecedented challenge the bipartisan Commission faces in selecting individuals who are immune (or at least as immune as possible) to accusations of bias.

One source said that Charlie Rose was unlikely to be selected because a 2012 Wall Street Journal report placed him and the Clintons in a "close group" of celebrities and political figures who spent a Christmas vacation at Oscar De La Renta's house in the Dominican Republic.

The Commission is also likely to pass over any television personality who has had a dust-up with either candidate.

Megyn Kelly has been one of the most prominent media personalities in the 2016 cycle because of her public spat with Trump, she will almost certainly not be invited to moderate a debate for exactly that reason.

 the Commission is handicapped by the absence of Jim Lehrer and Bob Schieffer, Both men retired from moderating debates after the 2012 cycle
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F_S_USATN
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« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2016, 02:58:14 PM »

Anderson Cooper (CNN)   34%
Megyn Kelly (FOX)           25%
Chris Wallace (FOX)           22%
Bob Schieffer (CBS)           17%
Lester Holt (NBC)           16%
Wolf Blitzer (CNN)           16%
Neil Cavuto (FOX)           12%
Bret Baier (FOX)           11%
Other                           11%
Rachel Maddow (MSNBC)   10%

per Morning Consult poll
https://morningconsult.com/2016/08/29/2016-debate-moderators-anderson-cooper/

Its funny that 2 out of the top 4 have already been ruled out. And I wonder if Lester Holt's good showing is in part because he was mentioned by Trump on the Hugh Hewitt show.
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F_S_USATN
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« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2016, 03:35:54 PM »

Kelly is all but ruled out after the spat with Trump and Scheiffer retired from moderating after the '12 cycle.

Articles I'm reading seem to think that next week sometime is when they will be released. Gotta think it will be 2 male and 2 female.

Some combination of Holt, Cooper, Dickerson, Raddatz, Woodruff, Ifil would be my guess for the finalists.
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