Republican Question placement

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Some analysts pointed to more stage-managing from CNN, whose producers and professional journalists picked the three dozen questions from among 5,000 submitted.

"It seemed more like CNN was picking and choosing the questions for their dramatic effect," said Peter Leyden, director of the New Politics Institute, which studies new media and politics and who was in St. Petersburg on Wednesday. "They wanted fireworks, and they got them."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/11/29/MN7KTKVIT.DTL
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/23/youtube-debate-questions-what-were-they-thinking/

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111707Y.shtml


Hmmmm....   Clinton staff place questions that make the canadate look good. Republicans get their quesions enriched with hot potatoes.

Are the Democratic campign staffs just that much more competant?