Cornell Hosts Third-Party Presidential Debates

clonebarkins writes "Tonight at 8:00, Cornell is hosting the third party presidential debate. Candidates debating are Michael Badnarik (Libertarian Party), Walt Brown (Socialist Party), David Cobb (Green Party), and Michael Peroutka (Constitution Party). Unfortunately, I cannot find any information about whether or not it will be broadcast anywhere."

Comments

Not broadcast,

[isotope23]

But C-Span is supposed to rebroadcast it at a later time according to badnarik's site

Re:Not broadcast,

[h8macs]

Friday on PBS' NOW with Bill Moyers, the four major third-party candidates take on the issues they believe are being ignored by the two main political parties. On the evening of the second Presidential debate in St. Louis, NOW's David Brancaccio moderates a conversation between the candidates that were excluded: Reform Party Presidential nominee Ralph Nader and Green Party candidate David Cobb and between Constitution Party candidate Michael Peroutka and Libertarian Party candidate Michael Badnarik.

NOW with Bill Moyers airs Friday, October 8, at 9 p.m. on PBS: check local listings

Re:Not broadcast,

[smack_attack]

WEOS radio in Geneva, NY will be broadcasting locally and streaming over the Internet.

Full info in this Badnarik blog post.

Re:Not broadcast,

[Selecter]

Listen to it live here live on WEOS. http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/weos/ppr/weos.as x

Re:Ralph Nader?

[h8macs]

He has been invited to EVERY third party debate, however he has not accepted any of the invitations.

Re:Right

[singularity]

From the Cornell site: "Independent candidate Ralph Nader declined the Mock Election group's invitation."

Nader turned them down, for whatever reason. No great conspiracy going on here.

Party Platforms

[N3WBI3]

Constitution
Libertarian
Green
Socalist

Re:Wasted votes

[Anonymous Coward]

I think Badnarik sums it up best:

"If you were in prison and you had a 50% choice of lethal injection, a 45% chance of going to the electric chair and only a 5% chance of escape, are you likely to vote for lethal injection because that is your most likely outcome?" --Michael Badnarik

Debates on C-SPAN?

[clonebarkins]

C-SPAN lists the third party debates as one of today's "events": http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan. csp?command=dprogram&record=181858431

Re:Wasted votes

[cavehobbit]

Vote for what you want, not for what you fear.

Voting for what you want, sends the system a message that a change is needed. When enough of these are sent, change happens or an old party is replaced.
See the history of the Whig party vs. the Republican Party in the 1800's. The Whigs were replaced by the Republicans.

See the history of the Socialst vs. the Dems in the 1910's-40's. The Socialists got people elected, even some to Congress, The Dem's responded, absorbed some of the Socialits positions, and the Socialists all but died, while the Dem's got a 4 term president and control of the nation for decades. And then promptly conspired with the Rep's to change the Constitution and ballot access laws to prevent such a successful challenge again.

Voting for what you fear sends no message, but is instead a lie stating you accept the current political environment.

A vote that is a lie is a wasted vote.

Tom

Re:Wasted votes

[Brandybuck]

Translation: Don't vote for someone, vote against someone. Subordinate your beliefs to the expedient. Let me tell you how to vote.

BBC Radio 5 Live

[dizzyduck]

It might be broadcast on Radio 5 Live's Up all night programme. The Presidential and Vice Presidential debates were broadcast at least.

Re:Biggest issue of the debate...

[h8macs]

They all are, however if you are asking in terms of ballot access then that would be "Libertarian". The Libertarian candidate is on 49 state ballots, well ahead of the other parties.