CNN Will Host First Republican New Hampshire Primary Debate

CNN, WMUR and Union Leader to produce the first New Hampshire GOP debate
Washington (CNN) - CNN is joining with WMUR-TV and the New Hampshire Union Leader to produce the first 2012 Republican Presidential Primary debate in the "First in the Nation" primary state, the media organizations announced Tuesday. It is scheduled to take place on June 7, 2011. As the first state to hold a primary, New Hampshire has played a historic role in helping determine each party's presidential nominees. In 2008, Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, won the New Hampshire primary and went on to ...

Another New Hampshire presidential primary debate announced
Another New Hampshire presidential debate was announced Wednesday. ABC News and WMUR will host a Republican primary debate for the 2012 presidential cycle. The specific time and date will be determined once the date for the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary are set, according to the release. The New Hampshire Union Leader, WMUR-TV and CNN announced Tuesday they will hold the first debate for the 2012 New Hampshire GOP primary, on June 7, 2011. Fox News and the South Carolina Republican P...

One day after CNN, WMUR & Union Leader announce first 2012 N.H. presidential primary debate, Fox News follows suit
Washington (CNN) - One day after CNN announced it is co-producing the first 2012 Republican Presidential Primary debate in New Hampshire, Fox News followed a similar plan. On Tuesday, CNN announced it will partner with the Granite State's WMUR-TV and the New Hampshire Union leader for a debate scheduled for June 7, 2011. On Wednesday, Fox News and the South Carolina Republican Party announced, in a Press Release, they will co-host two presidential Debates. One is scheduled for May 5, 2011 in Gre...

First Granite State Debate Set
New Hampshire Union Leader, WMUR-TV and CNN team up to present Republican Presidential primary matchup on June 7 in Manchester. Get The Page delivered to your inbox. newsletter today!...

ABC News, WMUR-TV to host GOP debate
ABC News and WMUR-TV, ABC’s affiliate in Manchester, N.H., will host a Republican presidential primary debate in New Hampshire between the Iowa caucuses and the 2012 New Hampshire primary. The specific date and times will be set once the dates for the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary are set. ABC and WMUR-TV co-hosted back-to-back Democratic and Republican primary debates in 2008. ...

Now Three 2012 Presidential Debates Are Scheduled (UPDATE: FOUR!)
Day by day, the schedule for 2012 presidential debates is being set. Fox News announced its sponsorship of a debate today. Spring: Politico and NBC News, the Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, California. The sponsors have pledged that this will be the first debate of the cycle. Early May: Fox News, Greenville, South Carolina. June 7, 2011: CNN and the Manchester Union Leader, Manchester, New Hampshire. The Orlando Sentinel reports that Fox News Channel and the Florida GOP are likely to...

Park Slope Plane Crash | Covering the Story
Photo courtesy of Henry McCaddin The television reporter Gabe Pressman, second from right, interviewed Mayor Robert F. Wagner and Fire Commissioner Edward Francis Cavanagh Jr. on the scene. They called it the “Brooklyn shack,” a warren of newspaper offices near the Police Department’s Park Slope precinct station house, and the reporters were sitting there, divining the direction of that particular Friday morning’s news, when they were rocked by the crash that seemed to split the sky

Lots of talk about presidential debates - but no candidates have spoken up
Reporting from Washington — What if you held a debate, but there were no Candidates there to participate? That's the gamble some prominent news organizations are taking as the political world looks ahead to the 2012 presidential-election cycle. Just this week, four new Republican primary debates have been announced, in addition to two that were set last month. But no major contender has yet come forth to officially declare his or her candidacy, a contrast to four years ago, when the fie...

And It Begins: First Presidential Primary Debates Announced
Get ready - the 2012 Presidential Election is almost upon us! Yes, the first Republican primary Debates have already been announced. Nancy Reagan made public last month plans for the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation to hold a debate in the spring of 2011, co-hosted by Politico and NBC News. Today, CNN and the New Hampshire Union Leader announced that they will host a debate on June 7th, 2011, for the Republican Candidates. Along those lines, I'd like to point out that the old Race42008 blog...

Now Three 2012 Presidential Debates Are Scheduled
Day by day, the schedule for 2012 presidential Debates is being set. Fox News announced its sponsorship of a debate today. Spring: Politico and NBC News, the Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, California. The sponsors have pledged that this will be the first debate of the cycle. Early May: Fox News, Greenville, South Carolina. June 7, 2011: CNN and the Manchester Union Leader, Manchester, New Hampshire. The Orlando Sentinel reports that Fox News Channel and the Florida GOP are likely to...

2012 presidential debates set for South Carolina
Another round of 2012 presidential Debates have been announced. Fox News and the South Carolina Republican Party will host two presidential debates. The first will be held May 5, 2011, at the Peace Center in Greenville, S.C. The second debate will be held in 2012 prior to the primary at a location to be determined, according to the release. The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation announced plans earlier this year to host the first GOP presidential debate of the election cycle in spring 2011 ...

Second presidential debate announced - Ben Smith
CNN and the New Hampshire Union Leader will host a presidential debate in June 2011: CNN is joining with WMUR-TV and the New Hampshire Union Leader to produce the first 2012 Republican Presidential Primary debate in the "First in the Nation" primary state, the media organizations announced Tuesday. It is scheduled to take place on June 7, 2011. As the first state to hold a primary, New Hampshire has played a historic role in helping determine each party's presidential nominees. In 20...

Fox, S.C. GOP plan May debate (Politico)
Fox News and the South Carolina Republican Party are planning a "First in the South" presidential debate in early May. Outgoing state GOP Chairwoman Karen Floyd announced the debate Wednesday morning. The event is scheduled to take place May 5 in downtown Greenville at the Peace Center for the Performing Arts. In 2004, Democratic Presidential Candidates debated at the same venue. The South Carolina GOP and Fox News will also host a second debate in early 2012 just ahead of the state'...

First 2012 SC Republican Presidential debate set
COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - The first 2010 Republican Presidential debate in South Carolina will take place in Greenville in May of 2011. On May 5th, 2011, Fox News will be televising the "First in the South 2012 Republican Presidential debate" live from Greenville's Peace Center. Candidates will spar over the issues in what is expected to be one of the most hotly contested presidential Elections in modern history. A second South Carolina debate will be held in 2012 prior to the South Carolina prim...

Granite State Debate
ABC/WMUR-TV slated to host GOP Presidential Candidate forum in New Hampshire. ABC News and WMUR-TV, ABC’s Hearst-owned affiliate in Manchester, NH, are joining forces once again to host a Republican presidential primary debate in New Hampshire between the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary in 2012. This debate will be held at a critical moment in the Republican nomination process -- just as the primary season gets underway. The specific date and time of this debate will be determi...

Afternoon Fix: Senate passes tax cut bill; more presidential debates set for New Hampshire and South Carolina; Coleman won't bac
Will Health Care hurt President Obama? (VIDEO) Check out the latest inductees in the Fix's political pantheon. The best of the best of state-based political blogs -- as of April 2009. Will Health Care hurt President Obama? (VIDEO) * The Senate passed President Obama 's Tax Cut Compromise today, 81-19. The House, where passage should prove much tougher, is expected to take it up on Thursday. * More 2012 GOP presidential primary debates have been set. ABC News will air a debate from New Hampshir...

Angle Launches New Tea Party PAC
Politico reports: Former Nevada GOP Senate Candidate Sharron Angle is angling to lead the Tea Party movement heading into 2012. Angle over the weekend unveiled the Patriot Caucus, a PAC that she says has the support of Tea Party organizers in 15 states and which will “organize a ground game across most Battleground states for the 2012 election cycle.” The group plans to open offices in Iowa, New Hampshire, Florida and Nevada - states with early presidential primaries and caucuses...

John Thune, Tim Pawlenty in Iowa backyard battle - Molly Ball and Kasie Hunt and Kendra Marr
While other prospects for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination are already making forays into Iowa, Sen. John Thune has taken pains not to set foot in the first-in-the-nation state at all. The last time he was in the state was early 2009, headlining a campaign event for Iowa Rep. Steve King. Nevertheless, if he decides to run, the widespread assumption is that as the senator from neighboring South Dakota, he'll play well there. And that's a problem for Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, another pot...

Todd Whitman: Palin Lacks Depth
The Hill reports: Former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman (R) said Sunday that Sarah Palin can’t win a nationwide run for the White House, and pointed to the fact that the former Alaska Governor left mid-term as an impediment to her support. Whitman said that Palin could do well in the early states of Iowa and New Hampshire, but pointed out that there will be a lot of competition among Republicans trying to keep President Obama from serving a Second Term. “Every congressman a...

Will Liberals Progressives Challenge Obama Amid the Snows of New Hampshire?
I still seriously doubt Obama will face a credible challenge for the 2012 nomination, but I love the analogy to Lyndon Johnson in 1968. From Walter Shapiro, at Politics Daily: ... what today's Democratic restiveness reminds me of is the summer of 1967 when liberal organizer (and later Long Island congressman) Allard Lowenstein tried to find someone - anyone - to challenge Lyndon Johnson for the nomination. Lowenstein and his youthful allies importuned all the leading antiwar senato...

Minnesotans want Bachmann for Senate (The Ticket)
A new poll shows that many Minnesota Republicans would be pleased to see national Tea Party star Rep. Michele Bachmann run for higher office. Bachmann topped the list of preferred Republican Candidates for Minnesota Senate in a Public Policy Polling (pdf) survey released this week. Thirty-six percent of "usual" Republican primary voters said they would like to see Bachmann challenge Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar in 2012. The second-place choice for GOP nominee was outgoing Gov. Tim Pawlenty, w...

2012: The tax-cut rift
The Wall Street Journal examines the rift between prospective Presidential Candidates created by the Tax Cut debate: “In opposing the deal, Ms. Palin and Mr. Romney are aligning themselves with several large tea-party groups that see the tax deal as a betrayal of the Republican Party's pledge during the last election to slash spending and attack the Deficit… Those supporting the deal [Gingrich, Huckabee, Pawlenty] reflect a wider Republican sentiment: that any Tax Cut is good and sh...

CNN morning show loses Roberts, executive producer
NEW YORK – Troubled CNN is looking to give a facelift to its morning news show, seeking a more "upbeat" mix of stories and leaving anchor John Roberts behind in the process. The network said Tuesday that Roberts, a former CBS News anchor, has left the show. Roberts is engaged to CNN anchor Kyra Phillips and has requested a reporting assignment that will take him closer to her home and the network's Atlanta base. CNN also said the "American Morning" Executive Producer, Jamie Kraft, has le...

Universal creating Syfy film label
Looking to create some corporate synergy and expand its successful TV brand, Universal Pictures is teaming with its sibling Cable Network, Syfy, to launch a new movie-production unit. Beginning in 2012, Syfy Films, a joint venture of the two NBC Universal-owned companies, is to produce one to two Science Fiction, fantasy, supernatural or Horror Movies a year that will be released by Universal Pictures. Its focus is somewhat similar to Rogue Pictures, the horror, thriller and comedy...

Upton Wants FCC to Expedite Review of Comcast, NBC Merger
In a letter to Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski dated December 10, U.S. Representative Fred Upton (R-MI) inquired into the FCC’s commitment to a fair, fact-driven review of the Comcast-NBC Universal Merger. The merger would call for the transfer of assets to a new Joint Venture for NBC Universal.  The Joint Venture combines NBC and Telemundu as well as 26 NBC television stations and national Cable Networks with Comcast’s regional sports networks and ...