Should campaign debates be limited to well-established parties: in a campaign consisting primarily of sound-bites and attack ads, voters have a right to an informed vote

Televised debates among candidates for high office are an American invention. The Kennedy-Nixon debate of the 1960 U.S. presidential election was the first such use of the medium. In the current campaign, leading to the election of Nov. 7, it was only on Sept. 15 that an agreement was struck to h...

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