CNN / YouTube Republican Debate Analysis @ TheDCShuffle.com
		Tancredo	F. Thompson	Hunter	Romney	McCain	Huckabee	Paul	Giuliani
Q1	(Video) For Mayor Giuliani: "Under your administartion as well as others, NYC was operated as a sanctuary city aiding and abetting illegal aliens. I would like to know if you become President of the United States, will you continue to aid and abet the flight of illegal aliens into this country?"								2
Q2	(Cooper) Governor Romney, was New York a sanctuary city?				4
Q3	(Video) "Will you pledge tonight, if elected president, to veto any immigration bill that involves amnesty for those who've come here illegally?"		4			4
Q4	(Video) "We've been working the seasonal guest worker program- the H2B program- bringing in and sending home workers every year.  With Congress failing to enact comprehensive immigration and guest worker bill, ....what are you going to do to keep these guest workers coming to the U.S. to save our business?"	0		0
Q5	(Video) For Gov Huckabee: "Would you support a federal law which would  require any state that gives (these) tuition breaks to illegal aliens, to give the same breaks to the children of our military members?"						2
Q6	(Video) For Ron Paul: "Do you really believe in all this (conspiracy theory of the Council of Foreign Relations drive to create a North American Union by merging Canada, Mexico, and the US) or are people just putting words in your mouth?"							4
Q7	(Video) "What measures will you take to tackle the national debt and control spending" (Cooper) "Have Republicans forgotten how to control spending?"				4	4			4
Q8	(Video) "What are the names of the top 3 federal programs you would reduce in size in order to decrease..."(video cutoff)		2				4	4
Q9	(Video) "Do you support the elimination of the federal income tax in favor of a national retail sales tax, also known as the fair tax?"					4
Q10	(Video) "Would you promise... that you will oppose and veto and effort to raise taxes as long as you're president?"	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Q11	(Video) "Which candidates...will endorse the elimination of farm subsidies if they are elected President in 2008?"				4				4
Q12	(Cooper) For Mayor Giuliani: Is it true and if so, was it appropriate that you allegedly took troops to the Hamptons and expensed the cost of your police detail to obscure city offices?								4
Q13	(Video) "What are you going to do to make sure that toys (with lead paint) don't make their way into our homes and that we have safe toys that are made in America again and we keep jobs in America?"	2		2
Q14	(Video) "What is your opinion of gun control?"			2
Q15	(Video) For Mayor Giuliani: "Why do you believe that citizens should be required to pass an exam in order to exercise their right to protect themselves and their families."								4
Q16	(Cooper) For Sen Thompson: "You said you don't think Mayor Giuliani has ever been a supporter of the 2nd amendment. Why do you say that?		4
Q17	(Video) "Any of you want to tell us about your gun collection?"		4	4	4	4
Q18	(Video) What are you going to do about black-on-black crime?				4				2
Q19	(Video) "In the event that abortion becomes illegal and a woman obtains an abortion anyway, what should she be charged with and what should her punishment be?" "What about the doctor that performs the abortion?'		4					4	3
Q20	(Video) Would you sign a federal ban on abortion?		4						4
Q21	(Video) "The death penalty...What would Jesus do?"	2					2
Q22	(Video) Do you believe every word in the Bible?			4	2				4
Q23	(Video) What would you do as president to repair the image of America in the eyes of the muslim world?			2		2			4
Q24	(Video) Considering that Sen McCain has come out against waterboarding and is the only candidate with first hand knowledge of torture, how can you disagree with his position?				2				4
Q25	(Video) Who will make a permanent or long term military committment to the people of Iraq?	2	2			2		4
Q26	(Video) For Mayor Giuliani: How do you respond to the accusation that you're using 9/11 to propel yourself into the White House?								4
Q27	(Video) Will you grant your vice president as much power and influence as VP Cheney has had?		2
Q28	(Cooper) Has this president given too much authority to the vice president?					0
Q29	(Video) "Why do you think that American men and women in uniform are not professional to serve with gays and lesbians?"			4			4
Q30	(Cooper) To Gov Romney:  "You said in 1994 that you look forward to the day when gays and lesbians could serve 'openly and honestly in our nations military.' Do you stand by that?"				2
Q31	(Video) Do you accept the support of the Log Cabin (gay) Republicans and why should they support you?						4
Q32	(Video) What will you do to repay money borrowed from the Social Security fund?		2		0
Q33	(Video) Will any candidate take a pledge to send a person to Mars by 2020 and if not, what is your vision for space exploration?	4					0
Q34	(Video) Why don't African Americans vote for Republicans when most African Americans are socially conservative?						2		4
Q35	(Video) What does the Southern Rebel flag mean to you?		4	4
Q36	(Video) Who is willing to begin investing in the national infrastructure?					0		4	4
Q37	(Video) For Ron Paul: Will you run as an independent?							4
	Questions asked directly	6	11	9	10	9	8	7	14
	Questions responded to	6	11	9	10	9	8	7	15
	Direct Questions answered clearly	2	7	5	6	5	4	7	12
	Additional  questions answered clearly	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
	Questions discussed but not answered	3	4	3	3	2	3	0	2
	Questions avoided entirely	1	0	1	1	2	1	0	0
	Responds clearly to direct question ratio	33%	64%	56%	60%	56%	50%	100%	86%
	Responds clearly to all questions ratio	33%	64%	56%	60%	56%	50%	100%	87%
	Empty answer ratio	50%	36%	33%	30%	22%	38%	0%	13%
	Question avoidance ratio	17%	0%	11%	10%	22%	13%	0%	0%
		1st	2nd	3rd
	The Buck Stops Here award: (Tie for 1st)	Thompson	Paul	Giuliani		(Zero question avoidance)
	Straight Talk award	Paul	Giuliani	Thompson		(highest clear answer ratio to ALL questions)
	Penn & Teller award	Tancredo	Huckabee	Thompson		(most empty answers provided)
	Moderator's Pet award	Giuliani				(received the most direct questions)
	The DC Shuffle award	Tancredo	Huckabee	Romney & Hunter		(Most likely to not clearly answer a question)
	Put up or Shut up award	Paul				(Zero empty answers)