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The debate Langdon is Langdon Jenkins

Last night during the presidential debate, an "internet" question came from "Langdon in Ballston Spa, New York." From the transcript:

BROKAW: There are lots of issues that we are going to be dealing with here tonight. And we have a question from Langdon (ph) in Ballston Spa, New York, and that's about huge unfunded obligations for Social Security, Medicare, and other entitlement programs that will soon eat up all of the revenue that's in place and then go into a deficit position.

Since the rules are pretty loose here, I'm going to add my own to this one. Instead of having a discussion, let me ask you as a coda to that. Would you give Congress a date certain to reform Social Security and Medicare within two years after you take office? Because in a bipartisan way, everyone agrees, that's a big ticking time bomb that will eat us up maybe even more than the mortgage crisis.

So, who's Langdon? He's Langdon Jenkins, an advertising copywriter who works in Saratoga.

Local media people have been hunting for him all day, so where's he been? Apparently he's not a shy guy, but it seems that CBS6 got to him first and they've been sitting on it as an exclusive. (Jenkins' wife apparently had been a producer there.)

We hear that Jenkins will be talking about the experience of having his question taken over by Brokaw tonight on the Ch 6 news.

Update: Here's the raw video of the interview.