The next Republican presidential debate will be sponsored by CNN. It will be September 16 at the Ronald Reagan library in Simi Valley, California. The top ten candidates will share one stage (who may not necessarily be the same ten candidates as in the August Fox debate). Candidates who aren’t in the top ten, but who are at 1% or more in the polls, will be in a separate debate. Just now, six candidates seem likely to be in the secondary debate, but there is time for others to be added. See this story. Thanks to PoliticalWire for the link.
I just spoke to Libertarian candidate for President, Honorable Rhett Smith [Libertarian], and explained to him the difficulties faced by candidates for the Libertarian Presidential nomination at their convention in 2016 in Orlando FL.
Miss Joy Waymire [Decline to State] and I both attended the convention as two of the 17+ Libertarian candidates last 2012 convention, and so we have past experience to build on.
Since she and I are team players, we aren’t here to point fingers or single out any particular people in the Libertarian Party organization. Instead, we are able to offer help to the new, younger candidates in 2016, so that they don’t face the same problems if we can help improve the selection process.
We were both present at the LP convention’s vote counting (yes, plurality voting) and we believe that this new system of ranked choice voting (RCV) and pure proportional representation (PR) will help the American people by identifying better team players.
But the current chair and convention organizers do not appear to be familiar with RCV in multi-winner districts (POTUS and Vice POTUS is a two-member district) and so our team needs to work especially hard ahead of time, to make sure they get on the right track.
Abolish the timebomb Electoral College.
Uniform definition of Elector-Voter.
Ballot access ONLY by equal nominating petitions —
i.e. at least some of the robot hacks would NOT be in any debate since they would not do nominating petitions.
P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.
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The whole Prez CULT stuff is totally out of control — esp. since color TV in the 1960s — the pop culture near god status given to the late J.F. Kennedy.
The media contempt for the gerrymander Congress and the States, etc. etc.
*sigh*
http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/112/14031341112/14031341112.pdf
I say again… *sigh*