Arent the "debates" really just advertising revenue generators for the media? They make the decision as to which candidates will help them generate the most revenue. Johnson wouldnt generate conflict like the two parties would. No one thinks Johnson is a viable candidate (translate that to "not a threat to anyone")

Absolutely. Its some sort of popularity contest funded by cronyism and advertisers.

Johnson will have to get media attention some other way.

No one is entitled to be in an advertiser funded debate. What gets you invited is your ability to get people to watch the debate. Johnson apparently wouldnt pay his way in terms of advertising revenue.

I doubt it, since Gary is gaining quite a few votes that would otherwise go to "progressives".

GOOD he doesn't belong there.

Johnson left the governorship in good shape and is currently polling at 25% in New Mexico.

Trump should agree to debate Johnson and Spence. Hillary would be left looking like an old frump in a sofa cover dress without a date.

I was thinking Soros front company money but I may be wrong.

I understand he has raised several million dollars in mostly small contributions. Also that his ads are targeting certain states rather than all across the country.

I read that social media and the CPD's phone lines were inundated with protests after their announcement.

Gary should be a debate commentator. Any network that signed him up would likely enjoy a boost in ratings. A voice of intelligence and sanity both before and after the slugfest.

Backing for my statement:
https://alibertarianfuture.com/2016-e...

I've seen his ads on tv and heard on radio. Who is paying for that expense?

I agree, but who will make the noise. Any volunteers?
Hmmm, I thought so.

That's what I've been thinking. And fantasizing that techies out there could find a way to "jam the airwaves" at the start of the debates so that Gary could be heard. Sound familiar?

It would be good to have Johnson spread a little Libertarianism into the debates, But the set-up to the debates is very exclusionary. Most likely, the only way we'll hear from Johnson is through Trump if he brings it up.

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Me dino does not think there will be much of a backlash if any because most Americans just plain do not care.
I would love for Johnson to debate. I would love for him to tell an amplified national audience that all you need for a ten foot fence is an eleven foot ladder, that illegal immigrants can be taxpayers, that we should not destroy ISIS for not even being over there and all the other--whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
Illegal immigrants? My bad.
I most especially want to see Johnson throw a tantrum on stage when The Donald calls Gary's "undocumented immigrants" "illegal aliens."
That would be a sight. I'd be laughing like I did when I previously saw him go bug-eyed and get his panties all in a wad over that..

The Democrat establishment would be terrified to give Jill Stein a place on the stage, as she makes a better argument for Bernie Sanders' policies that Bernie himself did.

This whole election cycle is ridiculous!

Not to be difficult, but do you have backing for your statement "A majority of Americans want Gary in the debates"? I venture that most Americans don't even know who Gary Johnson is. I could accept that there are polls (which only sample a small, supposedly representative population) indicating a majority of those polled responded favorably.

15% might be a little high of a threshold, but there does need to be a cutoff or we would have the Green Party chick with her 3% and tying herself to a tree or whatever she did last week, the communist party candidate, etc. and soon is devolved into the 15 people on stage like a Republican primary free-for-all.

If a person is below 10 or 15% though, realistically, I would be amazed if they got any electoral votes. Johnson might get New Mexico if he left the governorship in good shape (I have no idea).

There is only one certainty, if you value personal freedoms, 4 or 8 more years of ObamaCare, cap & trade, and picking winners and losers in the economy while sucking every drop of blood out of enterprise might be more than our way of life can survive.

Johnson should have his own debate, open to everyone who could win if they won every state where they're on the ballot. Everyone could go or send a proxy. If they don't, the alternative debate could pick a true Trump and Clinton supporter to debate in the candidates' stead.

Strike by encouraging everyone to boycott the monopoly controlled debates.
The mainstream media are not going to do this for Johnson. A few published articles encouraging the monopoly board to include Johnson, but it was done as a typical move to obscure their real objectives. The mainstream media are part of the problem, not the solution.