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Newspaper Editorials

- Two Parties Work to Exclude Third Parties, 23 August 2008, Las Vegas Review-Journal

- Give Us More Debates, 12 August 2008, Hartford Courant

- Big Easy Is Denied Its Chance, 29 November 2007, New York Times

- A Shameful Rebuff, 20 November 2007, The Times-Picayune

- The Script Shouldn't Win, 13 June 2005, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

- Corruption And Coercion At A Debate Near You, 16 October 2004, The Ester Republic

- Not Quite Real Debates, 8 October 2004, Capital Times

- Debates Hobbled By Flawed Format, 3 October 2004, The Herald-Sun

- Presidential Debates Can Be Invaluable, 1 October 2004, The Daily Democrat

- No Way To Run A Presidential Debate, 30 September 2004, The Virginian-Pilot

- A Slip Of The Lip Could Make This Thing Interesting, 30 September 2004, Chicago Sun-Times

- Closed To Debate, 30 September 2004, The Ledger

- What Debates?, 30 September 2004, Cleburne News

- Format's Debatable; Whether To Watch Isn't, 29 September 2004, Albuquerque Journal

- Let's Make Debates A Better 'Interview' For World's Top Job, 29 September 2004, The Sheboygan Press

- Debates Entertaining, But Will They Inform?, 27 September 2004, The Denver Post

- Watchdog Or Lapdog?, 25 September 2004, The News Leader

- The Debatable Debates, 22 September 2004, The Christian Science Monitor

- Upgrade A Poor Format, 20 September 2004, The Philadelphia Inquirer

- Include Third-Party Candidates in Debates, 26 August 2004, Capital Times

- Times Demand Substantive Debates, 9 August 2004 , The San Diego Union-Tribune

- Change Format, Let Candidates Match Wits, 22 July 2004, Press & Sun-Bulletin

- Open Up The Debates, 19 July 2004, Las Vegas Review-Journal

- Efforts Building to Take Back the Presidential Debates, 5 July 2004, Chicago Sun-Times

- Return to Old-Style Presidential Debates, 25 June 2004, Pioneer Press

- Free the Debates From Party Tyranny, 24 June 2004, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

- How About Real Debates, 20 June 2004, The Tennessean

- Repairing the Presidential Debates, 14 June 2004, The Oregonian

- Make Presidential Debates Real Ones, 14 June 2004, The Seattle Times

- Take Off the Gloves, 12 June 2004, Los Angeles Times

- Let Nader Debate, 20 May 2004, New York Sun

- Act to Change Tired Format, 7 May 2004, Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

- Debates May Oppose WU Values, 3 May 2004, Student Life

- Real Presidential Debates: public interest groups should replace the two-party stranglehold, 20 April 2004, The Harvard Crimson

- Only Bush-Kerry in TV Debates?, 8 April 2004, Christian Science Monitor

- Iowa Winnows the Field, 20 January 2004, Intelligencer Journal