Ifill
Gibson
Schieffer
Posted on 09/28/2004 10:44:11 AM PDT by crushelits
Commission on Presidential Debates Announces
Application Of Non-Partisan Candidate Selection Criteria
September 24, 2004
The non-partisan, non-profit Commission on Presidential Debates ("CPD") announced today that it has applied its Non-Partisan Candidate Selection Criteria for 2004 General Election Debate participation to determine eligibility to participate in the presidential debate to take place at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida on September 30 and the vice-presidential debate to take place on October 5 at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
Pursuant to the criteria, which were publicly announced on September 24, 2003, those candidates qualify for debate participation who (1) are constitutionally eligible to hold the office of President of the United States; (2) have achieved ballot access in a sufficient number of states to win a theoretical Electoral College majority in the general election; and (3) have demonstrated a level of support of at least 15 percent of the national electorate, as determined by five selected national public opinion polling organizations, using the average of those organizations' most recent publicly-reported results.
The Board of Directors of the CPD convened today to apply the criteria with the assistance of the Editor-In-Chief of the Gallup Polling Organization, Dr. Frank Newport. Of the declared candidates, President George W. Bush and Senator John F. Kerry were found to have satisfied all three criteria. Accordingly, President George W. Bush and his running mate, Vice-President Dick Cheney, and Senator John Kerry and his running mate, Senator John Edwards, qualify to participate in the September 30 presidential debate and the October 5 vice-presidential debate, respectively. No other candidates satisfied the criteria for inclusion in the September 30 and October 5 debates.
The CPD has successfully sponsored fourteen consecutive presidential and vice presidential general election debates, commencing in 1988. The CPD's planning for the 2004 debates has extended over a period of years and has drawn upon the CPD's now-extensive experience in sponsoring general election debates. On November 6, 2003, the CPD announced the four dates and locations for this year's debates, and on August 17, 2004, the CPD announced the four journalists who will moderate those debates: Jim Lehrer, Gwen Ifill, Charles Gibson and Bob Schieffer. The CPD is firmly committed to providing, in a professional and non-partisan manner, debates in 2004 that will allow the American public to view the leading presidential and vice presidential candidates discuss the issues facing the country.
The candidates who have qualified to participate today previously have committed to participate in the debates sponsored by the CPD.
Moderators
What do you know about these moderators and how do you rate them?
Jim Lehrer,
Gwen Ifill,
Charles Gibson
and Bob Schieffer.
Lefties, each and every one.
Hotties, everyone of them.
Oh sorry, wrong forum.
lol
Stale, "old media" types. Boring, all of them.
Liberal media types who have accomplished little in their careers.
.............PATHETIC............
I'd rather see Glenn Reynolds, James Lileks, Mark Steyn, and Michelle Malkin as moderators, myself. And for "balance," they could throw in that one moonbat lefty blogger, that Kos guy, who'd probably have a meltdown on-camera.
For the pajamahadeen!
}:-)4
I prefer "sidebar" over "admin"...
Admin Moderator is definitely the coolest, especially Thursday mornings, But Lead Moderator & Sidebar Moderator have their moments as well.
That is, until they get caught in an orchestrated, liberal biased, clumsy lie.
Then they're just reporters reading the news somebody else handed them.
With 10 being the best...and 1 being the worst; as a group, I'd rate them about a 1.319.
Ifill
Gibson
Schieffer
Lehrer is aterrible choice. Sick of seeing him, listening to his voice. A Liberal deadhead.
I don't know for certain, but I would be willing to speculate that no one of these moderators has ever voted for anyone that was not a Democrat.
Brit Hume should be there.
I would PAY to see that.
I'd sub Brit Hume for Lileks or Reynolds.
Dan
Lame.
How about Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Peggy Noonan, and Rush Limbaugh??
Or pick any two of the above and replace any two of the others.
Either way...we regain some balance.
Ann Coulter, Pat Buchanan, Larry Elder for starters.
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