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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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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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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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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Free and Equal, the group that originally planned to have an alternative Presidential debate in New York City on October 19, has now confirmed Ralph Nader and Chuck Baldwin for a debate on October 23 in DC.
Contact: Christina Tobin, 312-320-4101
This morning, Christina Tobin, Director of Free and Equal, announced an Independent/Third Party Presidential [...]

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The following press release was sent to IPR from Free and Equal
Free & Equal Elections Coalition
230 E. Ohio St., Ste. 212
Chicago, IL 60611
Attn: Politics Editors, Campaign 2008 Editors, National Editor
Third Party Presidential Debate to Take Place on Thursday, October 23rd
Contact: Christina Tobin, 312-320-4101
The Independent/Third Party Presidential Debate to have been held in New [...]

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UPDATE @ 1706 Central Time

We received another call from Christopher Thrasher, quoted in the story below. There will not be a debate at Columbia University, and he is no longer with Free and Equal. He will be releasing a statement and providing details later.
An NY Times article quoted at
Free and Equal indicates that [...]

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Ballot Access News reports

The proposed Baldwin-McKinney-Nader debate that had been planned for Sunday evening, October 19, is very unlikely to happen. It seems that none of the candidates who were originally invited (including Bob Barr, and on a theoretical basis, the major party nominees) had really committed and really wanted to participate. McKinney and Baldwin [...]

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The Republican, Libertarian and Green candidates participated in the debate while the incumbent Democrat sent a representative. The debate was hosted by the League of Women Voters.
Free TV : Ustream

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According to http://www.alternativecandidatesdebate.com/
An Alternative Presidential Candidates’ Debate will be held in Nashville from 7 to 9 pm (central time) on October 6th, one day prior to the McCain-Obama debate in Nashville. The debate is open to all third party candidates for President in the United States as well as the major party nominees.
The debate is [...]

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