I happened to be flipping channels this evening when I landed on ABC News’ coverage of the debate between the 9 Democratic candidates for president. Obviously there wasn’t much time in the 60-90 seconds segment to focus much on individual candidates, but I noticed something interesting — if judged by how much time ABC devoted to each candidate, ABC News views Al Sharpton as more of a serious candidate than Dennis Kucinich. I’m not sure if that’s more a commentary on Kucinich’s irrelevance or the likelihood that Shartpon will amass enough delegates to emerage as a player in the Democratic Party even though he can’t win the nomination.