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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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The founder and executive director of Open Debates – a sponsor of Thirdpartyticket.com‘s debate – and author of “No Debate: How the Republican and Democratic Parties Secretly Control the Presidential Debates” was interviewed by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! today. You can watch the interview, or read the transcript, at Democracy Now!’s website.

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From the Salt Blog The third party presidential candidates are escalating their campaigns to fight exclusion and garner mainstream attention. A common thread within these candidates is their opposition to the Wall Street bailout package. Ralph Nader, Independent candidate, has been particularly busy. Before the debate, supporters were encouraged to “hack” the debate with online [...]

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Independent candidate Ralph Nader has endorsed Trevor Lyman’s proposed alternative debate, joining Constitution Party candidate Chuck Baldwin: Trevor Lyman is the man who organized the Ron Paul money bombs. One Lyman money bomb raised $4 million in one day. Another raised $6 million in one day. Now, Lyman is at it again. Lyman wants to [...]

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Trevor Lyman is more than half way towards his goal of raising 10,000 pledges to stage a debate with all the candidates who are on enough state ballots to have a mathematical chance of winning the election. Lyman is previously known for organizing Ron Paul’s money bombs. Currently, ThirdPartyTicket.com lists the number of people who [...]

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Trevor Lyman, the man who organized the Ron Paul moneybombs, is trying to organize a debate for all of the presidential candidates who will appear on enough ballots to win. Ralph Nader, Chuck Baldwin, Bob Barr, Cynthia McKinney, Barack Obama, and John McCain will all be invited. However, it is not guaranteed that the debate [...]

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Via Reason Hit and Run On Friday, September 26 at Reason Magazine’s Washington DC Headquarters, Libertarian Party presidential candidate Bob Barr participated in the presidential debates with a live studio audience. Here, he makes his closing statement and fields questions from the audience; the moderator is reason Editor in Chief Matt Welch. Bob Barr blog [...]

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Youtube video. H/T Mike Theodore.

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Posted at cj08.com (I wasn’t invited to Friday night’s presidential debate, but you knew I was going to weigh in anyway. My “participation” comes in the way of interspersing my responses into the actual text of the debate, which you will see below. All of those responses to the questions asked by moderator Jim Lehrer [...]

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Writing in Huffington Post, Bob Barr says There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between Senator McCain and Senator Obama. The viewers of this first presidential “debate” missed the opportunity for a true debate because the viewpoints I represent were not raised. This was clearly a debate between big government and bigger government. The proposals [...]

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Posted at http://votetruth08.com/ Cynthia McKinney will have a response to the presidential debate scheduled in Mississippi tonight that will broadcast on all Pacifica affiliates through KPFK in Los Angeles tonight at 8:00 pm PST and 11:00 pm EST for 8-12 minutes. For those not within the range of the Pacifica affiliate stations, you can tune [...]

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Via the IPR tip line Reason.com to livestream Bob Barr debate commentary: http://reason.com/blog/show/129069.html For those who can’t make it to the Bob Barr event in reason’s DC HQ tonight, we’ll be experimenting with a live stream online. The stream will go live at http://www.mogulus.com/reason at 8:55 [pm Eastern time] with Bob Barr answering debate questions [...]

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In reality, independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader is not asking his supporters to disrupt the event itself. He is asking his supporters to comment on blogs that will be liveblogging tonight’s corporate presidential debate. The candidate is asking his supporters to put in his name on those blogs, and let people know about his stances [...]

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WASHINGTON, DC — Green presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney will be blogging live at the web site of the 2008 Presidential Debates Project (http://www.bloggingthedebates.com), a project of VoterWatch.com, during the debate between Barack Obama and John McCain in Oxford, Mississippi on Friday, September 26.
On Wednesday, Cynthia McKinney said she is ready to step in for John [...]

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The contribution countdown ticker at BobBarr2008.com has topped $1 million for the first time. This caps off what deputy campaign manager Shane Cory describes as a wild week Earlier this week, we received word that our case in Texas — where both John McCain and Barack Obama failed to certify their place on the ballot [...]

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Posted at VoteNader.org Contact: (Washington) Toby Heaps, 202-471-5833, toby@votenader.org NADER TO OBAMA/MCCAIN: LET ME IN! For the economy’s sake, there is no choice but to end war and make peace. On the eve of the first Presidential debate on foreign policy and in the midst of the biggest economic meltdown since 1929, Ralph Nader presents [...]

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CODA press release 9.23.08 Nashville, TN: The Coalition for October Debate Alternatives (CODA) announced today the Presidential Candidate’s Alternative Debate to take place October 6th, in Nashville, Tennessee. The debate is open to all third party candidates for President in the United States as well as the major party nominees. The debate, which is scheduled [...]

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