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David Cobb to Crash Debate, Risk Arrest

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the good-luck dept.

RobertB-DC writes "The Washington Post reports that Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb plans to travel to St. Louis to protest his exclusion from the presidential debate. In a press release, the Cobb campaign says to expect 'non-violent civil disobedience' as the candidate enters the restricted area around the debate site." Alan Keyes tried that once. So did Ralph Nader.

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  1. Re:Inconsistency by BlueFashoo · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, the debates were run by the LWV until 1984. The CPD let Perot debate in 1992, although these days they don't let third parties in by contractual agreement; which is hardly nonpartisan. See http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Commi ssion_on_Presidential_Debates

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  2. Re:At some point common sense must prevail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    You're actually missing the two on the largest number of ballots.

    Here's the breakdown of the four:

    Badnarik is on 48, all but New Hampshire and Oklahoma. He's the Libertarian Candidate.

    For the following, I'm excluding what's listed as "write-in."

    Peroutka is on 38. He's the candidate for the Constitution Party.

    Nader is on 34. No idea how often the page is updated for the various court cases with him.

    Cobb is on 28. Don't know if he can mathematically win with whatever states those are.

    Here's the breakdown.