The Debate Dance Card

Friends, the die is cast for tomorrow night. Thanks to being on the West Coast, I’ll be at work when the also-ran forum is broadcast. However, I’ll be home for the main event. Here’s my dance card:On the X axis I put the 10 candidates in order of their poll numbers. On the Y axis is a 5-point scale, where 1 = talking sense; 3 = dubious; and 5 = Is this guy smoking crack?!? I’ll rate each utterance by an individual candidate on the scale. Recall from a previous post that I’m theorizing that the candidates at each end of the X axis will say more outrageous things than the crew in the middle. Then again, given recent headlines, they all may be up in the smoking crack category.