Kerry won a coin toss for the first debate?

[tedoll78]

I've read this on Daily Kos.. has anyone else heard about this?

Supposedly he gets to answer the first and last questions at the debate..?

[grannylib]

1. Be good if so....particularly for the third and final debate - get the

last word in before the pundits start breathlessly fawning over the Chimp if he manages complete sentences.

[kainah]

2. first & last?

I doubt that he would get both first & last. Probably gets to choose whether he gets first OR last.

And I would think that they will do a toin coss for each debate.

[jezebel]

3. I heard Carl AsswipeCameron say this earlier tonight. I hope it true.

He said Kerry gets to make first and closing statement, thereby Kerry can set the tone and close it up.

[jefferson_dem]

4. The only thing left to chance, it seems, is the order of questioning.

That's to be determined by a simple coin toss. But true to form, even the flip of the coin is complicated: It's to be conducted by the commission at least 72 hours before the first debate. And according to the contract, the winner has the option of choosing whether to take the first or second question or of choosing whether to give the first or second closing.

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