Real Clear Politics has this commentary by James K. Glassman, criticizing the Commission on Presidential Debates. Glassman is a former Under Secretary of State, and a proponent of “Change the Rule” and “Level the Playing Field” and its ideas for improving entry into the presidential debates. Real Clear Politics holds itself out as non-partisan and non-ideological, but commentators generally think of it as a web page that leans to the Republican/conservative side.
By coincidence, if one looks at the link, one sees in the right-hand part of the page current polls for each major party’s presidential races. If one uses the data on those polls, and applies a hypothetical 15% polling rule for determining entry into the presidential primary debates, there could be no presidential primary debates for Republicans, because either one Republican, or zero Republicans, currently polls as much as 15%. The Commission on Presidential Debates only handles general election presidential debates and won’t let candidates below 15% into their debates.
Mr. Glassman only wants one “third party” candidate in the presidential debates. ALL non-establishment candidates who are ballot qualified in enough states to theoretically win 270 electoral votes should be allowed to participate. ALSO, the winner-take-all Electoral College needs to be replaced with district election of Electors. Then, ALL STATES would be in play to some degree, even California.
The 9th USA Parliament has been consistently uniting candidates for President of the United States who are interested in unity for more than 20 consecutive years.
Are you tired of hearing about the fighting and lawsuits that continues to plague the national Presidential campaigns from all sides?
We use pure proportional representation (PR) when we’d like to get things done collaboratively for the good of the whole.
The 9th USA Parliament has been using and advocating such an idea in coordination with hundreds of good US Presidential candidates for 20+ years and this has been working very well for us.
Nobody has it as good as the 9th USA Parliament!
Our first perquisite is that no legitimacy can be given to any single-winner elected name or election or else we’re harming any chance for unity, cooperation and teamwork from the get-go.
Do that, and we’re dead at the gate – dead in the water.
Until we abandon single-winner elections, their candidates and supporters, then we will be forever entrapped in division, conflict and hostilities.
See what pure proportional representation has done for the USA and International Parliaments here:
http://usparliament.org/
http://www.international-parliament.org/