McCain: ‘Stop the debates'

[karynnj]

63. Slightly more

In 2004, the Democrats had at least 16 primary debates . Yes, I know the Washinginton Post said there were just 2, but I suspect that they got that from looking at this site that is archiving debates - http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/debates.php However, that simply means their archive is very incomplete for 2004. Here is a list of 15 debates - ( http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/primdeb/primdebmain.html) I suspected it was incomplete because I remembered a debate with just Kerry, Edwards, Sharpton, and Kuchinich - and the last one listed at GWU included Dean. Here is to a February 26 debate, not included in the list - http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/180783-1

In 2008, The Democrats had 26 primary debates ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_presidential_debates,_2008 ) and the Republicans had 21 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_presidential_debates,_2008 ) .

So, the current number for 2012 is not way out of line. Kerry won the nomination very early. McCain was the Republican nominee months before Obama won.