[pe2-image src=”https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-qr3SJNTvQp0\/V6IeY0TTNpI\/AAAAAAAABoQ\/MOQxMOdheZ88D5JF66L4cTS8y5nyUBDBQCHM\/s144-c-o\/20160802_1113%2BHow%2BThird%2BParties%2BAre%2BKept%2BOut%2BOf%2BPresidential%2BDebates%2B%2528Huffpost%2529.jpg” href=”https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/102930737536139888016\/6313942463361513473#6314643039232145042″ caption=”How Third Parties Are Kept Out Of Presidential Debates By Pete Tucker, Huffington Post (August 2, 2016 11:13 a.m.) — This is the second in a four-part series on the televised presidential debates. When Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton square off next month for their first debate, it\u2019s unlikely a third candidate will join them. That\u2019s by design, not because voters don\u2019t want another option; nearly half say they\u2019re open to voting for a third party.This comes as the Democratic and Republican parties are experiencing a historic lack of support and have chosen, in Trump and Clinton, the most disliked major party presidential nominees in modern times. http:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/2016\/08\/02\/how-third-parties-are-kept-out-of-presidential-debates-part-2-of-4\/” type=”image” alt=”20160802_1113 How Third Parties Are Kept Out Of Presidential Debates (Huffpost).jpg” ]How Third Parties Are Kept Out Of Presidential Debates
\n By Pete Tucker, Huffington Post<\/p>\n
(August 2, 2016 11:13 a.m.) — This is the second in a four-part series on the televised presidential debates. <\/p>\n
When Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton square off next month for their first debate, it\u2019s unlikely a third candidate will join them. That\u2019s by design, not because voters don\u2019t want another option; nearly half say they\u2019re open to voting for a third party.<\/p>\n
This comes as the Democratic and Republican parties are experiencing a historic lack of support and have chosen, in Trump and Clinton, the most disliked major party presidential nominees in modern times.<\/p>\n
(Read more<\/a>.)<\/p>\n 4 Part Series:<\/p>\n Part 1: How Presidential Debates Became \u2018a Fraud on the American Voter\u2019<\/a> By Pete Tucker, TheFightBack.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [pe2-image src=”https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-qr3SJNTvQp0\/V6IeY0TTNpI\/AAAAAAAABoQ\/MOQxMOdheZ88D5JF66L4cTS8y5nyUBDBQCHM\/s144-c-o\/20160802_1113%2BHow%2BThird%2BParties%2BAre%2BKept%2BOut%2BOf%2BPresidential%2BDebates%2B%2528Huffpost%2529.jpg” href=”https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/102930737536139888016\/6313942463361513473#6314643039232145042″ caption=”How Third Parties Are Kept Out Of Presidential Debates By Pete Tucker, Huffington Post (August 2, 2016 11:13 a.m.) — This is the second in a four-part series on the televised presidential debates. When Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton square off next month for their first debate, it\u2019s unlikely a third candidate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[1197,889,129,1200,1201,130,1202,832,116,1199,126,550,524,907,1198,831],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-2016","tag-1197","tag-a-future-to-believe-in","tag-campaign-2016","tag-commission-on-presidential-debates","tag-cpd","tag-donald-trump","tag-george-stephanopoulos","tag-green-party","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-khyber-pass","tag-political-revolution","tag-presidential-campaign-2016","tag-progressive","tag-ralph-nader","tag-ross-perot","tag-third-party","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425,"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions\/1425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}