http://old.warisacrime.org/blog/1553 After Downing Street is a nonpartisan coalition working to expose the lies that create and sustain wars and occupations and to hold accountable those responsible. We have speakers available. If you register on this site, you will have the option to receive occasional Email updates from us. Please read our policy regarding posting comments on this site. Would you like to see ADS news every time you go to Google.com? Use this widget or this widget to put ADS news on any website. We're on Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter, and have an RSS feed. en http://old.warisacrime.org/content/how-presidential-%E2%80%9Cnon-opinion%E2%80%9D-polls-drive-down-third-party-numbers-and-facilitate-debate-ex <div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text"> <p>This week, the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates announced what polls it will utilize in excluding candidates from its debates.</p> </div> <div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text"> <p>The CPD says candidates like the Libertarian Party’s Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Jill Stein must get 15 percent in polls conducted by “five national public opinion polling organizations” — ABC/Washington Post, CBS/New York Times, CNN/Opinion Research Corporation, Fox News, and NBC/Wall Street Journal.</p> </div> <div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text"> <p>Not only — as several have correctly argued — is the 15 percent threshold arbitrary and exclusionary, but these polls don’t actually ask voter preferences at all.</p> </div> <div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text"> <p>They all ask “If the presidential election were being held today for whom would you vote?” or some minor variation of that.</p> </div><p><a href="http://old.warisacrime.org/content/how-presidential-%E2%80%9Cnon-opinion%E2%80%9D-polls-drive-down-third-party-numbers-and-facilitate-debate-ex" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://old.warisacrime.org/content/how-presidential-%E2%80%9Cnon-opinion%E2%80%9D-polls-drive-down-third-party-numbers-and-facilitate-debate-ex#comments debates Election 2016 Elections polling third parties Fri, 19 Aug 2016 00:52:29 +0000 samhusseini 70972 at http://old.warisacrime.org