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Lynn Sweet couldn't help but notice the curious way CNN had elected to position the candidates on stage for last night's YouTube Debate: frontrunners to the center, Dodd and Biden on either side, Dennis Kucinich at the far left (as noted by Anderson Cooper) and Mike Gravel as close to somewhere else on the grounds of The Citadel as they could get him. This was, as Sweet noted, "by design, not coincidence." Sweet noted that CNN did allow for the campaigns to vote on a rule change that would mandate a random seating assignment, but predictably, this didn't happen. CNN's political director Sam Feist justified the positioning, saying that viewers would benefit from Obama and Clinton taking center stage because "would be the ones questioned by the other candidates and challenged and attacked." Yes, but by people from the edges. Excepting Edwards' quip about Clinton's coat, anyway.
Huffington Post | Jason Linkins | July 24, 2007 03:52 PM