The hours are ticking down if you want to pledge your support to Thirdpartyticket.com. If 10,000 pledges are made by October 10th, the same man who planned the Ron Paul moneybombs will host a debate for all candidates for president on enough ballots to win the Electoral College. Right now there are just over 8,800 pledges. You can pledge here.
10 responses so far ↓
1 paulie cannoli // Oct 7, 2008 at 3:40 pm
It now says 8807 people have pledged to donate October 16th, 2008
2 johncjackson // Oct 7, 2008 at 4:59 pm
What is the point of a debate where no one will show up. This guy needs to find a new gig.
3 Ross Levin // Oct 7, 2008 at 5:16 pm
No one? What about Nader and Baldwin, who have endorsed it?
4 johncjackson // Oct 7, 2008 at 5:46 pm
There is a 3rd party debate every election. It is usually on CSPAN and anyone who cares already watches it or knows how to seek it out. Ok. I don’t see the demand significantly higher this year.
The only debate worth caring about would involve major party candidates as well. We know that ain’t happening.
5 sunshinebatman // Oct 7, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Is all the money going to the venue?
What about say, buying network time in swing states for this? Otherwise, why donate to something that would already be on cspan anyway?
6 Ross Levin // Oct 7, 2008 at 6:52 pm
I guess this guy is just trying to reach a wider audience, johncjackson. You could have said, “Why try to raise money for a fringe Republican?” But Ron Paul’s campaign turned into a great success for him even if he didn’t win.
sunshinebatman – I don’t know. And I don’t think this event will “be on CSPan anyway.”
7 kalipay // Oct 12, 2008 at 11:36 pm
The details for the debate were released today on the site, fyi. It was severely downgraded, unfortunately…
8 Spence // Oct 12, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Useless, last-minute gesture…
Seeing as how the CPD contract between Obama and McCain prohibits them from attending other debates anyway…
9 Ross Levin // Oct 13, 2008 at 10:07 pm
I’ll post that tomorrow if no one else gets to it first. That’s a disappointment (I never thought Obama or McCain would participate, but I thought at least the top third party candidates would have a professionally organized forum that would get some good press. Looks like that won’t happen, either).
10 Gregg Jocoy // Oct 14, 2008 at 1:28 am
I believe Cynthia McKinney has agreed to participate, and I believe Rosa Clemente has agreed to participate in a Veep debate as well.
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