Commission on Presidential Debates

Never Again! No More Focus Groups Please!

Linda Bergthold | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics

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Linda Bergthold

As we watch the debates on CNN, we too are influenced by the response lines, and after the debate is over, the influence of these small groups increases disproportionately.

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Meet Your Debate Sponsors!

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics

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Allison Kilkenny

That's right -- from the people who wiretap your phones and are praying for a government bailout comes the totally fair and nonpartisan vice presidential debate!

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First Presidential Debate Shortchanges The World

Susan Morgan and Jirair Ratevosian | Posted 09.29.2008 | Home

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Susan Morgan and Jirair Ratevosian

Sorry, world. Now that the United States has its own economic crisis, we're apparently too busy to discuss issues like genocide, global poverty, AIDS and the vast array of problems that affect the majority of the global community.

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Tonight's Debate: Will Our Children Fare Better than Us?

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics

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Marian Wright Edelman

This debate underscored the central question that each of us must ask ourselves before choosing our next president: Will our children and our children's children fare better than us?

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Long History of Debates?

Kate Kelly | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics

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Kate Kelly

With the fate of tonight's first presidential debate still uncertain, it is a good time to look back at when the tradition of holding presidential deb...

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Presidential Debates 2008 -- New Orleans Omitted from "Final Four"

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 11.28.2007 | Politics

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Arlene M. Roberts

Pardon me, but the commission expects a "seamless production" hardly two years after a natural disaster, unprecedented in the history of the nation?

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The Debate about the Debate Continues

Harry Shearer | Posted 11.27.2007 | Politics

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Harry Shearer

I asked Anne Milling, of Women of the Storm (the non-profit organization which was the official proponent of the New Orleans debate) to clarify the issues involved.

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New Orleans Is Not a Partisan Issue. Really.

John McQuaid | Posted 11.21.2007 | Politics

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John McQuaid

New Orleanians want to know why the Commission on Presidential Debates rejected the city's bid to hold a debate. The commission is not eager to explain itself, other than to assure us all that politics played no role.

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