The Commission on Presidential Debates has a procedure whereby institutions and organizations that wish to be the site of a general election presidential debate in 2012 must apply to the Commission. The guidelines will be available starting January 3, 2011. Generally it is colleges or universities that apply to host these debates. The application form will soon be available on the Commission’s web page, www.debates.org.
The USA Parliament, Inc. would certainly like to apply for such a debate. Our 2012 election falls between 4/20/2012 and 8/5/2012 so we’d like the debate at that time. We elect 100 consecutively ranked names with plenty of consecutively ranked backups, where #s 1 and 2 are president and vice president.
However, we’d give all nominees (including write-in) equal time. We are expecting more than 125 names, so we’d allow possibly about two hours for the debate. Then if all candidates showed up, they’d each get two minutes.
Otherwise we’d divide the time proportionately between those who actually attended.
Any other way would cause conflict among many good choices, such as the conflict currently occurring between the gubernatorial candidates in California, where there are six ballot qualified names for governor, and 42 total ballot qualified names being elected state wide in the state as a whole.
Since the district for US president is elected as a single winner district, what we’ll get is a lot of cro magnon’s attracted by single winner districts, cro magnon party bosses who buttress them, and cro magnun news sources who promote the single winner district process.
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How many party hacks are running for Prez even before the 2010 general election ???
Demo Rep, you mean like MMP Sarah Palin [Republican], MP Falph Nader [Independent] and MP Richard Winger’s favorite Wayne Allen Root [Libertarian]? They’re all three making some exploratory rumblings in the media, totally geared towards their on egotistical single winner district power grab attempt.
I actually don’t have a problem with people starting now, but that means they’ve given up on 2010. Us proportionalists lost 2010 too, way back in February when nobody helped with all party nominations.
Under our system, each cycle is very well timed, so we start looking towards the next year after the votes are counted on August 6th.
You won’t hear pluralists talking about all-party team work, for the good of the all, do you? You won’t see the pluralists nominating, voting or helping to register voters under the all party system. They’ll be doing the same old ego centrist thing…maybe they should work under the “Ego Centrist Party”.
To Single Winner District: If you want to host your own presidential debate and invite 125 or so candidates, nobody is stopping you. But you would have to do so outside the structure of the Commission on Presidential Debates. The CPD is only going to invite the major party candidates to their debates, unless there is a third-party candidate with the finances and popularity of a 1992 Ross Perot. I don’t think that the host sites have any influence over who gets invited to the CPD debates anyway.