This analysis at Presidential Debate News discusses the October 29 decision of the Commission on Presidential Debates to exclude every candidate who is below 15% in polls. The analysis notes that the CPD’s announcement acknowledges that the Commission was not unanimous. The CPD instead says that a “majority” of the board voted for 15%. The CPD won’t say what the vote was.
The analysis also points out that former President Bill Clinton is an honorary co-chair of the CPD, an obvious conflict of interest if Hillary Clinton becomes the Democratic presidential nominee.
The new United Coalition has no threshold for being on our team, in our debates and we allow everyone and split the time proportionately.
Each candidate must first elect their own name to be on the committee United Coalition.
So we only attract team players who want to work together, synchronize and coordinate for the good of the whole.
The candidates’ votes decide the prioritization of the names and the speaking time is evenly split evenly among all those who participate.
http://usparliament.org/pdc.php
Regarding the honorary co-chairs, I see that all the honorary co-chairs are former presidents: Carter, Clinton, and the deceased Ford and Reagan. Does anyone know why the two other living ex-presidents, Bush 41 and Bush 43, are not honorary co-chairs as well?
(Of course, they would face a similar conflict of interest as Bill Clinton if they became honorary co-chairs and Jeb Bush were the Republican nominee.)
And then people wonder why more people vote? There are 2 excuses. First, the MSM doesn’t give all the candidates equal media coverage. Second, the voters don’t take the time to look for other alternatives.