When John McCain moved to suspend his campaign and cancel the debates due to the financial crisis, Kelley and I wondered how this might financially screw not just Ole Miss, but the lovely little town of Oxford. We also wondered how easy it would be to reschedule a massive production like a debate. Apparently, we weren't the only ones.
From ABC News:
Andrew Mullins, special assistant to University Chancellor Robert Khayat, told ABC News that the Ole Miss campus has been transformed to accommodate the candidates and the press. Road blocks are in place on campus and in the community and the debate television set for the candidates has already been constructed. He said the university has spent roughly five and half million dollars getting ready for the debate.
Mullins also noted that if the Commission on Presidential Debates asks the campus to hold the debate at a later date, he is not sure the university would be able to accommodate them."It's huge. You cannot just say that you're not going to do this thing," Mullins said. "I don't have any idea whether we do the debate" at a later date. "[We] probably wouldn't do it."
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