<div><p>Presidential Debate News provides the latest news and information on efforts to open up the presidential debates to include a third, independent candidate - thus, giving the Americ
The Commission on Presidential Debates may soon lower the polling threshold to 10% for access to the stage. But don't be fooled. An independent will still be excluded. Here's why. At its upcoming meeting, there is a good chance that the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD)
In a piece for the Daily Beast last week, James K. Glassman, former Under Secretary of State in the George W. Bush administration, made an impassioned - and, in our view, logical - case for a separate online national primary contest to choose a single independent candidate to go up
Paul Bedard's recent foray into the world of conjecture about an action of two FEC commissioners is far from the mark.In a Washington Examiner piece, Bedard devised a theory out of whole cloth that the chair of the Federal Election Commission, Ann Ravel, and a fellow Democratic
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) recently found that the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) had not violated current rules on access to debates. That was no surprise - when you consider that the FEC, like the CPD, is divided between Democrats and Republicans. It's a bipartisan, not non-partisan
Amid the ruckus of the first Republican debate, including controversy over the use of polling to determine which candidates are participating, it is easy to forget that 43% of American voters don't identify with either political party. That's a record, and it reflects the alienation voters
Michael Smerconish, the CNN TV and Sirius XM radio host, wrote Sunday in his Philadelphia Inquirer column that, in a "significant development... a co-chair of the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) expressed openness to the inclusion of third-party candidates" on the stage in the fall 2016 contests. Frank
"Republicans and Democrats disagree on a lot," said Luke Russert of NBC News on Friday, July 17, "but they are in agreement when it comes time to shut out other voices." Russert was interviewing James K. Glassman, the former George W. Bush administration official who is
The Federal Election Commission last week turned down a request to consider a rulemaking that would force the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) to open those contests to independent candidates. The rejection was no surprise. The FEC has been described by its chair, Anne Ravel, as "dysfunctional." Its
Appearing on C-SPAN's Washington Journal on Tuesday morning, James K. Glassman - one of the 50 signers of the Change the Rule letter asking the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) to open the stage to an independent candidate in the fall of 2016 - raised a fascinating idea
On Sunday's "Meet the Press," host Chuck Todd raised an issue that is getting more and more attention from the media: the record proportion of voters who call themselves independents - and their lack of a voice in the upcoming presidential election. Here is part of
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Level the Playing Field, a group pushing to open up the presidential debates to an independent candidate, filed an historic lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court. The lead plaintiffs were joined by the Green Party of the United States and the Libertarian National Committee in asking the Court to
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Level the Playing Field (LPF), the group that is trying to improve the health of American democracy by opening up the fall 2016 presidential debates, filed a lawsuit on Monday in federal district court against the Federal Election Commission. LPF was joined in the historic lawsuit by the Green Party