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To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: Janet Brown of Commission on Presidential Debates, +1- 202-872-1020
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Commission on Presidential Debates http://www.debates.org/ The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) is a nonpartisan and nonprofit organization that was created in 1987 to "ensure that debates, as a permanent part of every general election, provide the best possible information to viewers and listeners." com/political-elections-channel. htm This site, How Stuff Works, has information about how elections work It is a goldmine of answers to a variety of questions about elections, such as How can someone tamper with an electronic voting machine? and How does the Electoral College work?. Biographical Information, Voting Records, Issue Positions (Political Courage Test), Interest Group Ratings, Public Statements, and Campaign Finances.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A group of third party candidates and their parties from across the political spectrum filed suit today charging the Federal Election Commission with failing to act on their complaint seeking to decertify the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) as sponsor of the presidential debates in 2004. The plaintiffs allege that the CPD must be decertified because it is a partisan group that is controlled by the two major parties and acts to benefit them exclusively. Federal law requires debate sponsors to be nonpartisan in order to put on the debates and fund them with corporate monies. The lawsuit, filed in federal district court in Washington, DC, asks the court to declare that the FEC's failure to act on the complaint is improper and to order the el...
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Stuart Rabinowitz, President, Hofstra University Stuart Rabinowitz took 90 minutes of prime time and made it last a year. In scoring the third presidential debate between Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain, the eighth president of Hofstra University turned the nation's attention to his Hempstead institution. Hofstra, after submitting itself to the microscope of the Commission on Presidential Debates, bested some of the country's top schools for the honor, mainly on the strength of its presidential studies curriculum.
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WASHINGTON, June 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following was released today by Open Debates: Faced with mounting criticism from a public campaign led by Open Debates and its 60 civic group supporters, the Commission on Presidential Debates has adopted some of Open Debates' format proposals for the 2004 general election presidential debates. These fig-leaf format proposals are unlikely to be implemented because the CPD is a compromised organization that deceptively privileges the interests of the Republican and Democratic parties over the interests of the American people.
