Who Gets To Debate?

[anaconda]

I can't believe how difficult it is to find any information on the internet about this!

Does anyone know? How many candidates get to debate in the primaries? Which ones? How does one get invited? What's to keep them from not inviting RP? Why did Alan Keyes not get invited in 2008? Etc.

[Rocket80]

The network that the debate is on gets to choose who is invited - there are no rules or guidelines or anything like that.

So yes, they sure can exclude RP - in fact I'd like to see 'em try.

[t0rnado]

We've accomplished too much since 2007 for them to exclude Ron Paul in the debates in 2011 and 2012.