Are all the people voting yes in this thread the kind of people who think Rocky de la Fuente and Keith Judd should have been on stage with Bernie and Hillary at the New York debate? Or do they not understand just how minor Jill Stein is?
Keith Judd has only been on the ballot in like 6 states. La Fuente, however, does have ballot access in enough states to win the nomination, so yeah on principle he should've been invited. For debates before filing deadlines, I would say anybody who has ballot access in enough states to possibly get a majority of delegates at that time should be invited.
It seems like they talk about this constantly. Especially the libertarians. They're not invited to the debates because the mainstream media is silencing their cause or whatever. Take the wool of your eyes people! The media is #DestroyingDemocracy by not letting these candidates with <1% support participate in these very serious events.
Personally I think if they're able to get at least 10-15% support, like Anderson or Perot, they should be invited, but not if they're just in the low single digits and clearly are just also-rans and only getting attention because they're not Clinton/Trump and not for their ideas, they shouldn't be.
Face palm. The whole reason they have 1% support is because the media ignores them and they're rarely included in the polls.
Yes, both. I think if the party or ticket has ballot access in enough states to get 270 electoral votes, you should be invited to the debates.
Martin O'Malley was polling at 1% and mostly ignored by the media. After taking part in several highly watched debates, he still polled at 1%.
Same for Pataki, Graham, etc.
It's totally within the realm of possibilities that they could remain far-fetched candidates that aren't popular, but are you seriously saying that we shouldn't even give them a shot because it hasn't happened with other candidates in a primary?
O'Malley did rise a few points after some debates, but Pataki/Graham were always at the 'kids table', a demoted debate which far less people watched, so that's worth noting.
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