Open Debates

Returning to the establishment-excluded voices of third party candidates, and via RT, the Free and Equal Elections Foundation announces another non-mainstream presidential debate featuring Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party, Virgil Goode of the Constitution Party, and the two Medicare For All candidates this blog has been following-- Jill Stein of the Green Party, and Rocky Anderson of the Justice Party.
 
 
  
In early October, the Daily Paul reported numerous new sponsors for the October 23rd debate inviting the "top six presidential candidates" including "Link TV, The Josh Tolley Show, Ballot Access News, Come Home America, Owl Creek Gazette, Free Talk Live, Securing Liberty Radio, 1787 Network, Voice of Russia, Freedom’s Phoenix,Muslims for Liberty, National Constitution Party, The Justice Party, Blue Republicans, Restore the Republic, Re-Tea Party, Free the Vote NC, We the People, Grassroots for Liberty, New Progressive Alliance, Libertarian Party of Illinois, Liberty Candidates, Liberty Avengers, Liberty Chat, Cook County Green Party, Marin Libertarian Party, Rockford Tea Party, Dangerous Conversation, Wide Awake News, and Liberty Hour."

Mousebeat posts that the Commission on Presidential Debates disallows the two mainstream candidates from debating elsewhere (than what we already know).

The Free And Equal Elections Foundation debate will be viewable live here.

Tonight, Democracy Now! will be back with expanded third party coverage hosting responses by Jill Stein and Rocky Anderson to voter questions presented to Barack Obama and Mitt Romney at a Town Hall style forum hosted at Hofstra University, and with news analysis afterwards.

Democracy Now! also speaks here with George Farrah, and about secret contract deals between the CPD and the two mainstream candidates to exclude third parties.  George Farrah is founder and executive director of Open Debates, and author of No Debate: How the Republican and Democratic Parties Secretly Control the Presidential Debates.

RT speaks here with Christina Tobin, founder of Free and Equal, and about the October 23rd candidates' forum.

Update/Correction:

Democracy Now! has posted on their livestream at Hofstra University that the expanded third party debate will be tomorrow (not tonight) - and it will include four third party candidates (not two) - Rocky Anderson, Jill Stein, Virgil Goode, and Gary Johnson in special two hour coverage and discussion.