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    Historic: FEC Chair Calls for Change to Debate Qualifications to Include Indie Candidates

    http://truthinmedia.com/historic-fec...ie-candidates/

    During a hearing over whether the Federal Election Commission should consider changing a rule that effectively prevents indie candidates from qualifying for general election presidential debates, FEC chair Ann Ravel argued and voted in favor of considering a change to the rule, making her the first FEC chair in modern history to vote in favor of reforming the presidential debates to improve third-party candidates' chances of inclusion.
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    They will try anything. If Rand becomes the nominee, the media will start talking about how the two party system sucks.

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    Debate participants are determined by the host of the debate. Should they be forced to include all candidates? All candidates would be a massive debate (see article below). If not all candidates- who gets to determine which ones? How is that determination to be made? Even the Republican debates my not include all of the candidates within their own party. Fox says they will limit those debates to ten candidates. There could be as many as 20 running.

    http://www.nytimes.com/politics/firs...6-and-growing/

    The Presidential Candidate List Gets Longer: 366 and Growing

    If it seems as if new candidates are announcing their presidential runs every day, well, that’s because they are.

    Last week saw the announcements of Rick Perry, Lincoln Chafee and Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. But then there’s Kevin Deame, who filed his papers in April to run under the “Pirate Party.” And John Green Ferguson of Texas, who has called for recycling every piece of trash in the country and whose campaign website features all-caps diatribes and neon fonts (it also sells some green-living hardware).

    And Princess Khadijah M. Jacob-Fambro is a Revolutionary Party candidate from California who, asked to give the name of her presidential campaign committee, used it to make a marriage proposal to the rapper Lil Wayne and put in a smiley-face emoji for good measure.

    All told, 366 people have filed a Form 2 statement of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission, and that number is growing by the day. Most of the candidates are better defined as no-shots than long shots, but they do add plenty of character to an already colorful cast of candidates.

    Some of the more obscure candidates have been able to build a noticeable level of support, or at least attention. Thomas Keister, for example, who is running under the banner of the Marijuana Party, has more Twitter followers than Mr. Chaffee, a former Rhode Island senator and governor.

    And Vermin Supreme, a performance artist who ran as an alternate candidate in New Hampshire, often clad with a rubber boot for a hat and holding a bowl of candy for voters, even placed third in the New Hampshire Democratic primary in 2012, with 833 votes. (That year, of course, President Obama was up for re-election and did not face significant opposition.)

    One reason there is such a vast pool of “official” candidates is that the barrier for entry is quite low: All a candidate needs is some free time to fill out the required F.E.C. forms; and with the advent of the web form, not even a postage stamp is required anymore.

    “The only requirement to file that form is if they raise or spend more than $5,000,” said Christian Hilland, a spokesperson for the Federal Election Commission. “But they can certainly file before that, and I would imagine that some of them have not reached that threshold yet. Anyone can file that F.E.C form
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    They need to let all candidates participate but use the Festivus format, where they begin with an airing of grievances and then, feats of strength.

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    Quote Originally Posted by logikal View Post
    They will try anything. If Rand becomes the nominee, the media will start talking about how the two party system sucks.
    Seriously? Not even 4 yrs ago people were all hot to trot on Ron running 3rd party. At least with the trump threat we might actually not see a bush in the white house.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CPUd View Post
    They need to let all candidates participate but use the Festivus Thunderdome format [...]
    Fixed it.
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    Some have suggested a 15% popularity poll standing to be able to participate. But only three third party candidates have been able to finish the final ballot with at least 15%. Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 (27.4%). Robert M. La Follette in 1924 (16.6%), and H. Ross Perot in 1992 (18.9%). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ates_elections

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