Rep. Paul Will Be In ABC’s Debate. What About FNC’s?

ABC has released the list of candidates who will participate in Saturday night’s back-to-back debates. For the Democrats, four candidates have been invited: Obama, Clinton, Edwards and Gov. Bill Richardson. Rep. Dennis Kucinich didn’t make the cut.

For the GOP, Rep. Ron Paul did make the cut, as well as Giuliani, McCain, Huckabee, Romney and Fred Thompson

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Rep. Paul’s invitation to the ABC debate is again raising this question: should FNC invite Paul to its New Hampshire forum set for Sunday night?

To participate in the [ABC] debate, all candidates needed to meet one of three criteria:

1) Place first, second, third or fourth in the Iowa Caucuses

2) Poll 5% or higher in one of the last four reputable random sample New Hampshire telephone surveys sponsored by an established news organization and conducted and released on or before January 4, 2008.

3) Poll 5% or higher in one of the last four reputable random sample national telephone surveys sponsored by an established news organization and conducted and released on or before January 4, 2008.

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