By way of the Nader-Gonzalez campaign:

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Also, see Video: Alternative Presidential debates.

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The video’s description:
Having refused to be a guest on KQED´s public affairs program Forum because she was not allowed equal time, America´s leading peace activist Cindy Sheehan audaciously called in to the program this morning to get a chance to address House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Upon stating that Nancy Pelosi has ducked her responsibility of [...]

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For a long time now, independent congressional candidate Cindy Sheehan has been asking the Democratic incumbent she is challenging, Nancy Pelosi, to a debate. Last Wednesday, Sheehan got to debate Pelosi, even though it only lasted forty seconds.
The San Francisco radio station KQED was having an hour devoted to the congressional race. They [...]

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The comments of this post will be an opportunity for readers to liveblog the The City Club of Cleveland debate between Bob Barr, Chuck Baldwin and Ralph Nader, moderated by Dan Moulthrop of Cleveland’s PBS radio and television stations, which will be streamed live by ideastream (http://www.wviz.org/ and http://www.cityclub.org/homepage.asp). The candidates will debate between 4:30 [...]

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According to an email from the Baldwin campaign,
The City Club of Cleveland debate, moderated by Dan Moulthrop of Cleveland’s PBS radio and television stations, will be streamed live by ideastream (http://www.wviz.org/).
CSPAN will tape the debate for later showing, and it will also be live on public access cable in Cleveland.
IPR’s previous coverage of [...]

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As IPR already reported, there will be another debate between the alternative Presidential candidates who are listed on enough state ballots to win the election, to take place tomorrow.
On October 30, Ralph Nader, Bob Barr, and Chuck Baldwin will debate each other at the Cleveland (Ohio) City Club, between 4:30 pm and 5:30 pm. [...]

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via contact.ipr@gmail.com

Attn: Politics Editors, Campaign 2008 Editors, National Editors
Vice-Presidential Debate to Take Place on Sunday, November 2nd
Contact: Christina Tobin, 312-320-4101
Christina M. Tobin, President of Free and Equal Elections, announced this afternoon that Libertarian Party vice-presidential candidate, Wayne Allyn Root, Constitution Party vice-presidential candidate, Darrell Castle, and Independent Ralph Nader running mate, Matt Gonzalez, have [...]

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Video of the debate posted on Green Party candidate Midge Potts blog.

The Democratic candidate also participated, but Republican Congressman Roy Blunt ducked the debate.

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Babette Hogan reports:

The West Virginia Gubernatorial race is heating up - and it’s coal powered.
Jesse Johnson, the West Virginia Mountain Party’s candidate for Governor, matches up against the incumbent (d) Joe Manchin and (R)Senator Russ Weeks in this Public Broadcasting Debate.
Johnson is the only gubernatorial candidate of the three who is against the coal mining [...]

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Dave Weigel writes regularly for Reason Magazine, and emailed contact.ipr@gmail.com about this article, published in The Nation.
Here’s an excerpt:
It’s one of the paradoxes of election 2008. If no one is happy with Congress, no one is happy with the president, and voters grumble to pollsters about the two parties, it should be a breakout year [...]

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Writing in LP Radicals yahoo group, anarcho-capitalist Libertarian candidate in Virginia’s 1st congressional district election Nathan Larson assesses his debate performance:
Today I was in a Congressional debate in the 1st District of Virginia, which was held in Williamsburg. (Kudos to the League of Women Voters, by the way, for inviting the 3rd party candidate!) [...]

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Posted at CSPAN Junkie

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Tune in at 9 PM Eastern time (8 PM Central, 7 PM Mountain, 6 PM Pacific, 5 PM Alaska, 4 PM Hawai’i) in the comments on this post, and add your own.
IPR has previously covered the debate:
Cynthia McKinney and Bob Barr react to tonight’s Free and Equal debate between Ralph Nader and Chuck [...]

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According to Richard Winger at Ballot Access News, RocktheDebates leaders are tentatively planning a national conference early in 2009, on the thorny problem of how to get more inclusive general election presidential debates.
Rock the Debates, Inc. is a non-partisan 527 focused on opening up the debate process. The idea is to get the Democrat and [...]

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H/T Michelle Shinghal

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