Ballot Access News reports that
It is likely that the Gary Johnson-Jill Stein debate, set for October 30 in Washington, D.C., will be postponed due to the upcoming east coast storm, which makes travel very difficult.
I’m not sure whether, or how, that will change RT.com’s plans:
Libertarian Party candidate Gov. Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Jill Stein will sound off once more before Election Day, with both presidential hopefuls now slated to debate live from RT’s Washington, DC studio on October 30.
Tens of thousands around the globe watched earlier this week when broadcasting legend Larry King moderated a debate between the top third-party candidates live from Chicago. As those politicians continue to be shunned by the mainstream media and political establishment alike, though, they remain excluded from presenting their platform to the country on the eve of a historic election. RT aims to make a difference, however, and will host Johnson and Stein to speak their minds on the topics Americans really care about in 2012.
Following the success of this week’s Third Party Presidential Debate broadcast on RT live from Chicago, the top candidates as selected by voters on the Free and Equal Elections Foundation website will move on to a second debate from the nation’s capital, this time answering questions dedicated solely to foreign policy.
“The voters have spoken, and we are pleased to announce that Gary Johnson and Jill Stein will advance to the second debate,” Christina Tobin, founder and chair of Free and Equal, tells RT.
When Johnson and Stein took the stage to participate in the first third-party debate this year, the candidates sounded off on questions that, while vital to the voting public, were absent from the discussions held between President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney during the televised debates that selected only Democrat and Republican politicians to participate.
The second and final third-party presidential debate will be held on October 30 from 9:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Eastern Time, (October 31, 1:00 a.m. – 2:30 a.m. GMT) and will be aired on RT America as well as RT.com and on RT’s YouTube channel.
On Facebook, Christina Tobin has asked who should moderate the debate. In addition to multiple mentions of Tobin herself, readers have suggested :
Ron Paul Mel Gibson Bob Dylan John Stossel Judge Napolitano Ben Swann Jimmy Carter Joe Rogan Rick Mercer Peter Mansbridge Jesse Ventura James Lipton Christiane Amanpour Charlie Rose Keith Olbermann Art Linkletter Ralph Nader Julie Borowski Cynthia McKinney Chris Hedges Glenn Greenwald Barbara Walters Oprah Bill Murray Alex Jones Josh Talley Penn Jillette Drew Carey Teller Rachel Maddow John Anderson Dan Rather Matt Gonzalez Kevin Zeese Jason Kafoury Lou Dobbs Amy Goodman Alexander Cockburn Jimmy Kimmel Sam Waterston Regis Philbin Alex Trebec Jane Kennedy Tom Bevan Brian Lamb Ross Perot Lawrence O’Donnell Jon Stewart Vermin Supreme Stephen Colbert Barack Obama Rush Limbaugh William N. Grigg Tom Hanks Mika Brezinski Joe Scarborough Satan Stefan Molyneux Morgan Freeman Ben Stein Virgil Goode and Rocky Anderson Bill Moyers Michael Krasney
More recently, Tobin posted
Rumor has it our moderator will be a woman….
And:
[Moderator] TBA Monday
And:
In the future ~ we plan on opening the debates to every candidate who’s on the ballot in at least one state and le the people decide through IRV who will participate in the first, second, third, etc. round of debates!
Yes.
No, it wasn’t necessary. I felt like being gratuitous.
I was hoping it would generate comments on the various people named, but that didn’t work out too well. While some people who were named definitely won’t be moderating – e.g., Obama, Satan (unless there’s something we don’t know about one of the possible moderators, lol) – others could plausibly be the moderator, and others could be a distant possibility.
There’ll be another post when the actual moderator is announced, which I think is supposed to be today.
So there is the Ralph Nader debate Nov 4 and the Free and Equal debate Nov 5?
Also, was it really necessary to list off people who definetly won’t moderate? Worse still doing it double spaced? LOL
That has now been confirmed
https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2012/10/update-second-free-and-equal-presidential-debate-of-2012-moved-to-election-eve-november-5/
Possible new date is Nov. 5, evening before Election Day.
It should be Barack Obama.
He’s not doing anything useful these days!
While I would enjoy watching Teller moderate the debate, I’m afraid it might get confusing for the candidates.