I watched the NBC debate, and I had the sense that things were fishy in terms of the amount of time each candidate got to talk. So, this time I timed how long each candidate got to talk, and put together some percentages of time for you here. I did this as I watched the debate, so I don't pretend this is "scientific", but should be "about-right".
Here are the numbers from the Tea Party CNN debate:
Total candidate talking time (in seconds): 4041
Percent of time by candidate:
Perry: 21.3%
Romney: 15.7%
Bachmann: 12.7%
Huntsman: 11.3%
Santorum: 10.4%
Gingrich: 10.8%
Paul: 9.6%
Cain: 8.2%
Hope this helps... go forth and make pie charts. Also, I would suggest that we should put this "finding" to the news outlets and ask them to explain why candidates are not getting equal time, as Wolf promised?
I took timestamps of the time of each talk also, so if anyone wants to plot a sequence of when people got to talk vs others, I can provide that info too :-)
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