CNN is sponsoring the first Democratic presidential debate. It will be held in Las Vegas on October 13, Tuesday evening. Here are the rules on who may participate. They include being at least 1% in polls. Thanks to PoliticalWire for the link.
Given that both the Republican and Democratic presidential debates sponsored by CNN have a 1% poll requirement, the Commission on Presidential Debates’ poll requirement of 15% seems more and more to be deviant and far too harsh.
There are the only 3 current candidates averaging 1%.
ABOLISH the super timebomb Electoral College.
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Uniform definition of Elector-Voter in ALL of the U.S.A.
NO primaries, caucuses and conventions — to greatly shorten the nonstop torture of the voters for Prez especially.
Equal nominating petitions — to show SOME sort of REAL support for each candidate.
ONLY serious candidates wlll be doing such petitions.
P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.
@Mike: It actually says “an average of at least one percent in a combination of three national polls from among those that are recognized in this document.”
If I am reading that correctly, it means that Lincoln Chafee, for example, who has been getting 0% in a lot of polls, can qualify because he was at 1% in a Fox News poll, 1% in a CBS News/New York Times poll, and 1% in an ABC News/Washington Post poll, and he can leave all the other polls in which he got less than 1% out of consideration.
By contrast, if all of the 14 recognized polls from the period (so far) were taken into consideration, Chafee would be only at 0.29% by my calculation.
O’Malley and Webb don’t have the same problem. Even if you took all 14 polls into consideration, both would be over 1%. Counting only their three best polls, O’Malley would average 2.33% and Webb 2%.
Three candidates! The choices are very limited. It is time to look at the republican candidates!