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wlotus ([personal profile] wlotus) wrote2008-10-15 04:32 pm
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Third-Party Presidential Candidate Debate Sunday Night

I have never heard McKinney debate, though I have looked at where she stands on the issues and viewed some of her speeches on YouTube. This will be the only debate I watch this election season, provided I am at a computer that night. (The debate will be streamed on http://www.thirdpartyticket.com/ .)

Sunday's C-Span Opportunity: 3rd-Party Candidates Debate
by Maria Recio
Published on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 by McClatchy Newspapers
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/10/15-8


WASHINGTON - Third-party presidential candidates finally will have their own debate: at 8 p.m. Sunday at Columbia University in New York.

The debate, which will be announced Wednesday, will include at least three of the four third-party candidates - independent Ralph Nader, the Green Party's Cynthia McKinney and the Constitution Party's Chuck Baldwin. Libertarian Party nominee Bob Barr said he has a scheduling conflict, but debate organizers say he wanted to appear only with Nader. (Democratic nominee Barack Obama and Republican nominee John McCain are also invited.)

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