Analysis: Ehrlich Liked The Debate Format, But It Didn’t Like Him

Bob Ehrlich said he really liked the format of Monday’s debate between himself and Gov. Martin O’Malley, but it’s not clear the debate format liked him.

“This morning’s format is what every debate should be about,” Ehrlich said to a couple of reporters. The fairly unstructured “back and forth” conversations “don’t allow themselves to sound bites.”

Having won the negotiations on the format, Ehrlich failed to take full advantage of the freedom it permitted.

His opening statement made no attempt to lay out the “far different views” he had from O’Malley.

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