On the morning of October 29, the three candidates for U.S. Senate from Delaware debated each other at Widener University, School of Law. The debate will probably be broadcast soon on WDEL, a radio station. The three candidates are the nominees of the Democratic, Republican, and Green Parties.
This year, there are only fifteen states in which there were U.S. Senate and/or gubernatorial debates, and all of them that included both major party nominees excluded all minor party and independent candidates (if there are any minor party or independent candidates). Those states are Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
New York had one televised Gubernatorial debate and included both the Green and Libertarian Party candidates.
Right, that’s consistent with the contents of the blog post. I mentioned the states that have been totally exclusionary, and New York is not on the “bad” states list.
The sentence
“This year, there are only fifteen states in which there were U.S. Senate and/or gubernatorial debates, and all of them that included both major party nominees excluded all minor party and independent candidates (if there are any minor party or independent candidates).”
Seems to say that there were no states in which candidates for Governor or Senator who are not Demcrats or Republicans debated both the Democratic and Republican nomineed for that office.
You probably meant something else, maybe there is a word missing or misplaced somewhere?
I can’t see what’s wrong with my sentence. There are some states in which there haven’t been any Dem-Rep debates. I didn’t want them on my list of “bad” states. There are a few states where one major party nominee has debated his or her minor party or independent opponents, but the other major party wouldn’t show up. I did want to include those states on my “bad” list. There are also some states that don’t have either Governor or US Senate up this year, and of course I didn’t want to put them on the “bad” list.
is there going to be a blog post about the Vermont governors debate? we all have to have a little sense of humor.
All Debates – whether privately or publicly sponsored – should be required by law to allow all candidates who have qualified for the ballot to participate in the Debate.
If one has qualified for the General Election Ballot, this should be sufficient enough to include such candidate in any Debate.
Which of those lists is New York on?
“This year, there are only fifteen states in which there were U.S. Senate and/or gubernatorial debates, ” <– To me this would mean that there are 35 (or 36 if you count DC) states that did NOT have ANY US Sen or Gov debate.
" and all of them that included both major party nominees excluded all minor party and independent candidates (if there are any minor party or independent candidates).”" <– To me this would mean that 15 of 15 of those states either had no non-establishment candidates for USS/G, or excluded them from debates, or only included them in debates with either the D or R but not both.
Yet NY is an example of a state that does fit any of those:
It does have non-D/Roid Gov candidates who were in fact in a debate with both the Democrat and the Republican.
I think there were some others? Not sure.
In any case, if you did not mistype, I must be misreading you somehow here, but I still don't understand how.
Richard: I read this post the same way as Paulie did.
It would be helpful to clarify; In which states this year was there a debate for governor or U.S. Senate in which the Democratic and Republican candidates participated along with one or more third party/independent candidates? We know New York (governor) is one, and Delaware (senator) is another. Which other ones were there?
Arkansas would be another where Frank Gilbert (L) and the Green candidate participated in at least one Governor debate.