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Originally Posted by Sigaba
FWIW, there were timers in the sight lines of both candidates that did give warnings as time wound down. And as both campaigns agreed to the format, it might be unrealistic to think either candidate would be put in a situation where his mic would be cut off.
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I think Fox ended up with unofficial times of: Obama/43:57 and Romney/40:58
I agree that cutting off microphones would have led to "Mic-gate"...
I was unhappy that the moderator took it upon herself to interject herself into the debate during the Libya discussion...it is not a moderator's job to open his/her pie hole in defense of either debate participant...
For example: if either candidate wanted to stand up there during the debate and argue that he would have unicorns on every street corner in America blowing rainbow farts at passing traffic to improve air quality, it would not be the moderator's job to say, "There are no such thing as unicorns!". It would be within his/her purview to ask follow-up questions...like "How would you pay for all the unicorns?" or "What do rainbows smell like?...