Based on the fact that the Commission on Presidential Debates is an entirely partisan organization founded by the Dems and Repubs (www.debate.org - they are the 501c3 that controls the televised debates) The Appleseed Task Force for the Citizens' Debate Commission set the requirements for a new, more open version. The benchmarks for this debate are 5% in a national media poll conducted by www.opendebates.org or 50 percent of a national poll that shows people want whatever candidate in the televised debates. The Libertarian candidate claims that the opendebates poll that put Ralph into the Appleseed debates used poor question wording. It remains open to debate, but, at least they got a third candidate into it.
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Based on the fact that the Commission on Presidential Debates is an entirely partisan organization founded by the Dems and Repubs (www.debate.org - they are the 501c3 that controls the televised debates) The Appleseed Task Force for the Citizens' Debate Commission set the requirements for a new, more open version. The benchmarks for this debate are 5% in a national media poll conducted by www.opendebates.org or 50 percent of a national poll that shows people want whatever candidate in the televised debates. The Libertarian candidate claims that the opendebates poll that put Ralph into the Appleseed debates used poor question wording. It remains open to debate, but, at least they got a third candidate into it.