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GORDON wrote:

Malcolm wrote:

Leisher wrote:People didn't call call you a racist scumbag who needs to be murdered and ostracized if you said you were voting Romney.

Yes, they did. It just wasn't as loud because even Mitt wasn't stupid enough to suggest that people of certain ethnicities aren't capable of treating him fairly.

Yes he did, he just referred to them as "47%" of voters.

Neither he nor Trump were wrong.

So, they're nominating Palpatine, & we're nominating Binks.

I've heard he's only 2 percentage points away from being included in the debates.

Malcolm wrote:

I've heard he's only 2 percentage points away from being included in the debates.

That'd mean 13%, which is two points higher than the highest estimate I've seen. Depending which poll you check, he's in the 10-13% range right now.

Leisher wrote:

Malcolm wrote:

I've heard he's only 2 percentage points away from being included in the debates.

That'd mean 13%, which is two points higher than the highest estimate I've seen. Depending which poll you check, he's in the 10-13% range right now.

No matter what, it's still close.

Also, you bring up an interesting question, which poll do they go by when determining who participates? What if some polls have him above 15%, but others have him below 15%?

The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) requires that candidates poll at 15 percent in five national surveys leading up to the three scheduled debates and that they garner enough spots on state ballots to chart a path to the White House.

But that’s a catch-22 for third-party or late-deciding independent candidates: Most polling outlets are only testing match-ups between Trump and Clinton in their surveys.
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Johnson said he’s pushing hard for pollsters to include his name, but he said he’s met with resistance from several outlets that have told him he’s not well-known enough to be included.

Frank Fahrenkopf Jr., co-chairman of the CPD, told The Hill that while the group faces lawsuits almost every cycle, including one this year from Johnson and other third-party leaders, the criteria has been upheld because it is objective and nonpartisan.
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Johnson has railed against the commission and its criteria, describing it as a rigged process designed by a closed cabal of Republicans and Democrats hell-bent on maintaining power by keeping insurgent candidates at bay.

But [bought and paid for Baruch College political scientist David] Birdsell defended the commission, arguing the high bar is by design.

“That’s a very, very difficult task, a dauntingly difficult task. And, in my view, it should be,” he said.

“We don’t want to treat presidential debates as the audition platform for the next-out party. If the Libertarians have not been successful at establishing a large base, they need to get that work done.”

Even as Clinton attempts to shatter what she has called "the highest, hardest glass ceiling," other women like Thomas are testing other, lower ceilings. There are many: Women in the U.S. remain significantly underrepresented at all levels of elected office.

According to exit polls, 53 percent of voters in the 2012 elections were women, which means that women determined the outcome of the presidential election.

I suspect the real problem is that fewer women choose to run for office in the first place.

Vince wrote:This is an interesting election.

“.@timkaine wears a Honduras flag pin on his jacket but no American flag. Shameful,” read tweet from the North Carolina GOP account.
Mr. Kaine was in fact wearing a Blue Star Service pin in honor of his son, Nat, a Marine serving in Eastern Europe, a point raised by WNYT reporter Ben Amey.