Should Gary Johnson and Jill Stein be invited to the debates?

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

It's hard to say. The problem is not with the commission standards (although I'd like the polling threshold to be lowered), but with the polling companies themselves who in past years have refused to include the third party candidates. I know PPP is good about including them, but most of the rest of the media has taken to treating them like horsesh**t since they do polling for liberal groups and aren't a live interview company. Hopefully Monmouth remains open to including them and that convinces other polling companies to do the same.

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

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%.

Did O'Malley outperform Clinton or Sanders in any debate? No. That's why his numbers stayed where they were.

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

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%.

Did O'Malley outperform Clinton or Sanders in any debate? No. That's why his numbers stayed where they were.

I'm sure antivaxxer conspiracy theorist Jill Stein and goofy Gary Johnson would dominate the debates if only given the opportunity. lol

"Goofy" applies to someone else: