Ninth District Republican Party Chairman Larry Shickles on Wednesday proposed the political polygraphs for Democratic Rep. Baron Hill, GOP challenger Mike Sodrel and Libertarian candidate Eric Schansberg. The three are scheduled to debate Oct. 21, but an official with a debate co-sponsor said lie detectors won’t be included. […]
Shickles, in a letter sent Tuesday to 9th District Democratic Chairman Mike Jones, suggested that the candidates be hooked up to lie detecting machines at the Oct. 21 event or a separate debate.
“While this format may be unusual, I feel strongly that voters need to be able to make a clear decision without all the usual spin,” Shickles wrote.
Sodrel’s campaign said he would agree to the proposal, and Schansberg said he also would agree to wear a lie detector. Hill declined to comment.
Thomas over at Blue Indiana has more:
With recent polls showing him down by double-digits, I knew the guy was desperate, but that noise we all just heard was the fine line between “desperate” and “insane” flying right by our heads.
Words fail.
The mere fact that Sodrel is having to dig this deep shows that he is running way behind…Baron has done everything right this cycle, and maybe Sodrel will give up after this try…LETS HOPE!
Will he blame his loss on Hill’s lies and reluctance to take a lie detector test and run for a 5th consecutive time?
This is a great idea! I would like to see it used in not only this debate, but as many as we can get them into. What excatly is bad about this idea?