The Intercept has posted a 4-minute C-SPAN segment in which Donald Trump criticized the Commission on Presidential Debates for its 15% poll rule for entry into the debates. The segment begins with a statement by Jesse Ventura, who was the Reform Party Governor of Minnesota at the time. The piece also quotes Trump on what he has been saying lately about the 15% rule.
On Sunday, September 4, the Times-Dispatch of Richmond, Virginia endorsed Gary Johnson. The party had endorsed Republicans for President all the years 1980 through 2012. Thanks to Bryan Gilkerson for the link.
Brian Calle and Yuri Vanetik have this op-ed in the Orange County Register and ten other daily newspapers in southern California. Calle is in charge of the editorial pages of those eleven newspapers, effective in April 2016. The op-ed deplores the policy of the Commission on Presidential Debates.
Here is information about Vanetik, the co-author.
Forbes has this commentary by David Davenport, on California’s top-two system and the 2016 U.S. Senate race. The title is “Beware Election Reforms that Eliminate Voter Choice.” He summarizes political science research that shows the California top-two system has not changed who gets elected, or how they behave once in office. Then he points out that a California Poll finding that half of all Republicans say they will leave U.S. Senate blank this year when they vote in November.
According to this story, Evan McMullin said on September 2 that he wants to debate Gary Johnson and Jill Stein. The story implies that McMullin did not mention Darrell Castle or Rocky De La Fuente, both of whom will be on the ballot in more states than McMullin will.
