On April 14, the Republican National Committee announced its withdrawal from the Commission on Presidential Debates, which has monopolized “major party” debates since 1988. The RNC, claiming bias on the CPD’s part in selecting moderators, pledged to “find newer, better debate platforms.”…
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The Jorgensen Insider: Issue 05
The campaign of 2020 Libertarian Party presidential nominee Jo Jorgensen sent out the following newsletter to email subscribers yesterday. This is the fifth issue.
Text Banking in 5 Steps
by Ryan Cooper

It’s easy to text bank for Jo Jorgensen.…
The Jorgensen Insider: Issue 03
The campaign of 2020 Libertarian Party presidential nominee Jo Jorgensen sent out the following newsletter to email subscribers last week. This is the third issue.
DEBATABLE RULES
by Jennifer Imhoff

The first 2020 presidential debate is tonight, September 29, 2020, at 9:15 EDT.…
Melinda Pillsbury-Foster: The Commission for Presidential Debates is a Private Organization
Melinda Pillsbury-Foster is the executive vice president of Rebuild America and a former member of the Libertarian National Committee. She submitted the following article for publication. …
Open Thread for CPD Invitation Decision
Whatever happens is expected soon (surely they will give the candidates more than a week’s notice of who they will be debating against), so this is the THREAD for that discussion. …
Commission on Presidential Debates Announces Social Media, Technology and Voter Education Initiatives
The Commission on Presidential Debates issued a News Release earlier today regarding the various Social Media and other initiatives they have created for the (Bi-Partisan or perhaps Tri-Partisan, doubtfully Quad-Partisan and almost certainly not Quint-Partisan) Presidential Debates, the first of which is now 11 days away (Monday evening 26 September 2016).…
ABC News/Washington Post: Johnson @ 9; Stein @ 2 percent
The latest of the CPD selected polling firm reports offers little hope for a debate invitation to any candidate other than the two old party ones, at least based on the 15 percent (apparently national) stated polling requirement. …
Polls “Very Bad News” for Third Candidate CPD Debate Invitation
Image source: Realclearpolitics.com (edited to show only the Libertarian and Green Parties, and only from 1 June 2016 to 31 August 2016. NOTE: Real Clear Politics is using a different set of polling data than that which will be used by the Commission on Presidential Debates.…
Debate Sites Admonished By CPD: “Plan for a larger stage.”
In an article by Hadas Gold published by POLITICO earlier today titled “Clinton-Trump debate sites plan for a third podium” the venues that will host the presidential (and presumably the one vice-presidential debate) are, “drawing up plans for a three-person forum.…




