Debates scheduled...

[mrgorth]

First presidential debate:
Thursday, September 30
University of Miami
Coral Gables, FL

Vice presidential debate:
Tuesday, October 5
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH


Second presidential debate:
Friday, October 8
Washington University
in St. Louis

Third presidential debate:
Wednesday, October 13
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ

Don't know anything about town hall format. Info from http://www.debates.org

[DemocratSinceBirth]

1. does bush get to sit in cheney's lap?

[buycitgo]

2. pugs are STRONGLY denying this

they say NO decision has been made

I just heard it on the radio

[Blue_Roses]

8. I don't get it

why the hell would they "debate" the debates? :shrug: It makes Bush look stupid and weak...something they try so hard to keep from joe sixpack seeing. I know they are afraid of his speaking in an audience that will ask him real questions, but to avoid it looks worse.

[NV1962]

3. Uh... That's as per November 6, 2003

According to their own admission. :)

[mrgorth]

4. I also heard it on NPR this morning

home boy. The Thugs have signed up for all 3 and schedule is as written.

[buycitgo]

5. interesting...did they give any details, like format, seating, etc?

thx

wonder what the deal is

[buycitgo]

6. this is what I keep hearing.....they're CLOSE, but no ceegar

http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/news/092004_AP_r2_pres_debates.html

"The Bush campaign denied there is a deal."

this is what I've heard

no deal yet

[NV1962]

7. So far, it's tentative - WH is still balkin' though

Honest - I can't find any confirmation citing a "reliable" GOP source.

However... Since a question of the debate format was asked earlier - here's a "more recent" post on the same CPD site:

August 13, 2004

Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr., and Paul G. Kirk, Jr., co-chairmen of the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), today announced moderators for the 2004 general election debates. The moderators, and the schedule and locations for the debates (as announced on November 6, 2003), are as follows:

• First presidential debate:
  University of Miami
  Coral Gables, FL
  Thursday, September 30
  Jim Lehrer
  Anchor and Executive Editor, The NewsHour, PBS
  
  
• Vice presidential debate:
  Case Western Reserve University
  Cleveland, OH
  Tuesday, October 5
  Gwen Ifill
  Senior Correspondent, The NewsHour, and Moderator, Washington Week, PBS
  
  
• Second presidential debate:
  Washington University in St. Louis
  St. Louis, MO
  Friday, October 8
  Charles Gibson
  Co-Anchor, ABC News Good Morning America
  
  
• Third presidential debate:
  Arizona State University
  Tempe, AZ
  Wednesday, October 13
  Bob Schieffer
  CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent, and Moderator, Face the Nation

Each debate shall begin at 9:00 p.m. EDT.


Format

The format for the debates, as announced on June 17, 2004, shall be as follows:

• Each debate shall have a single moderator and last for 90 minutes.
  
• In the first and third presidential debates and the vice presidential debate the candidates shall be seated with the moderator at a table.
  
• The first presidential debate shall focus primarily on domestic policy and the third presidential debate shall focus primarily on foreign policy. The second presidential debate shall be held as a town meeting in which citizens will pose questions to the candidates. The vice presidential debate shall cover both foreign and domestic policy topics.
  
• There shall be no opening statements; there shall be two-minute closing statements.
  
• The order of questioning and closing statements shall be determined by coin toss.
  
• The moderator's job in the first and third presidential debates and the vice presidential debate will be to introduce and change topics, to ensure that the participants have equal time, and to encourage some direct exchange among the candidates. The moderators will select all topics and questions.
  
• In the second presidential debate, the town meeting participants will pose their questions to the candidates. The town meeting participants will review their questions with the moderator before the debate for the sole purpose of avoiding duplicate questions. The participants in the town meeting, to be chosen by the Gallup Organization, will be undecided voters from the St. Louis, Missouri, standard metropolitan statistical area.
  
• The moderators will have discretion to ask follow-up questions in all debates.
  
• Each debate shall take place before a live audience.

Participants*

The CPD's 2004 Nonpartisan Candidate Selection Criteria, announced September 24, 2003, shall be the exclusive means of determining the candidates to be invited to participate in the debates.
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*Note by nv1962: that emphatically precludes Nader from participating - there's no chance whatsoever that he's going to produce a "realistic" projection of garnering 15% of the votes on Nov 2 - and that's one of the PDC's Big Three Criteria.

[Blue_Roses]

10. What kind of BULLSHIT is this?

The participants in the town meeting, to be chosen by the Gallup Organization, will be undecided voters from the St. Louis, Missouri, standard metropolitan statistical area.

Gallup? Give me an effing break:eyes:

Yeah, real fair questioning there:eyes:

[lefthandedskyhook]

12. Not a real debate

Audience questions can be handled in a different forum. There is not much point in holding the event if the candidates cannot address one another in cross examination.

[shoelace414]

9. Voldemort will only hold a debate if

he thinks he may possiable lose the election without holding the debate.

he didn't agree to debate Gore until his poll numbers started dropping.

[GimmeDANEger]

11. 2 minutes ago on MSNBC

they said Bush has yet to agree.