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About 5,000 questions actually. Not an inordinate amount. There would be enough people out there that would be willing to sift through them all and give their analysis of CNN's choices, that a consensus could be reached.

As for the Colonel, that seems to be another problem with the YouTube format. Since anyone can ask a question, anyone can ask! Including rival campaign plants. However, I watched his question, and he did ask a question through YouTube, two candidates responded, and then the Colonel got to respond to the responses. He did use his response time as a platform for his agenda, which you can tell Anderson Cooper wasn't really happy about and was forced to cut him short. But as I understand it, this was not a unique situation for the Colonel. CNN has invited other YouTubers who had their questions chosen to be present live at the debate to respond to the responses.