From this Wikipedia
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_on_Presidential_Debates>
article which seems to reflect the Democracy Now show:
The CPD
established^/<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_%28dates_and_numbers%29#Chronological_items>/
a rule that for a party to be included in the national debates it must
garner at least 15% support across five national polls.
which just about excludes any one other than the DemoCans. Gary Johnson
supposedly
<http://newmexico.watchdog.org/16306/poll-shows-gary-johnson-at-10-6-in-ohio-is-that-for-real/>
got over 10% in Ohio but of course that's not national.
Robert C
On 10/4/12 1:40 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
I've been out of the mix for a while, so I missed this:
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/JohnsonL
So Gary is not laying down, just being (mostly) ignored. He's made
the ballot in all 50 states apparently...
I'm hoping that in every non-battleground state, folks will not be
afraid to vote for their third-party candidate of choice. Even Mickey
Mouse, Alfred E. Neumann or your favorite pet.
In battleground states, it is a harder question... the arguments
against "splitting the vote" are real, which demands a change in the
election laws to break the bipartisan deadlock.
As many of you may know, I'm a big proponent of breaking the
polarization of our two-party system. Here is Democracy Now's
attempt to subvert the lock-out created by the two major parties and
maintained by myriad interests:
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/10/4/expanding_the_debate_exclusive_third_party
How many of us even knew there WAS a Green and a Justice Party
candidate? I assume some have not even heard of Libertarian
candidate Gary Johnson... if he wasn't an NM homeboy, *I* might not
have known about him.
Here is a short piece on the "conspiracy" behind this lockout...
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/10/3/ahead_of_first_obama_romney_debate
I tend to trust DN's accuracy in reporting, despite their clear
bias. The facts laid out here are pretty damning.
I'm personally sorry that Gary Johnson wasn't available for this, I
would like to believe it is truly logistics, not lack of interest on
his part for not being there for this.
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