THIRD PARTY DEBATES: WHAT HAPPENED
an editorial by Christina Tobin
Throughout the 2008 Presidential Campaign, the four major independent and third-party candidates called for the Commission on Presidential Debates to include on stage all candidates who appeared on enough state ballots to at least theoretically attain the 270 electoral votes required to become president. As expected, their [...]

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Found at Gail’s Tails

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Via They Will Be Heard
October 30th, 2008 - Presidential Debate
TheyWillBeHeard.com provides live video restream of the debate held by The City Club of Cleveland:

October 23rd, 2008 - Presidential Debate

TheyWillBeHeard.com partners with Free And Equal to broadcast a presidential debate, with support from:
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Audio Stream:

Presidential Debate, October 23th, 2008

Video Stream:

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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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The segment on the alternative debate is about 4 minutes into the clip.
IPR’s previous coverage of the debate included reporting on David Weigel’s piece in The Nation, as well as video of the debate (with links to several prior articles).

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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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posted by Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch

Cynthia McKinney released a video statement (below) regarding the “Third Party” Debate scheduled for tonight. In an accompanying statement, further details emerge:
LOS ANGELES - Green Party Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney released a statement this morning regarding the hastily scheduled debate announced for this evening in Washington D.C.
The [...]

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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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