While I do not care for Johnson any more than the other two its wrong to exclude him from the debate process. Johnson has a significant enough following to warrant a good look if only to provide him with the opportunity to disqualify himself when he speaks.

I agree CBJ a large amount of noise should be made to see that he's afforded the opportunity to present himself to the nation.

"Top Clinton officials long expected Trump to agitate to get Johnson on the stage, but the Republican nominee has said he doesn’t want that to happen."
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09...

A majority of Americans want Gary in the debates. Time for the "mainstream" media to forcefully bring up the issue when interviewing Clinton and Trump.

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.

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.

Look at the clowns on the CPD:
Howard G. Buffett, Chairman and CEO, The Howard G. Buffett Foundation
John C. Danforth, Former U.S. Senator
Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr., President, Purdue University
Charles Gibson, Former Anchor, ABC World News with Charles Gibson
John Griffen, Managing Director, Allen & Company LLC
Jane Harman, Director, President and CEO, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Antonia Hernandez, President and CEO, California Community Foundation
Reverend John I. Jenkins, President, University of Notre Dame
Jim Lehrer, Former Executive Editor and Anchor of the NewsHour on PBS
Newton N. Minow, Senior Counsel, Sidley Austin LLP
Richard D. Parsons, Senior Advisor, Providence Equity Partners LLC
Dorothy S. Ridings, Former President, the League of Women Voters and former President and CEO, Council on Foundations
Olympia Snowe, Former U.S. Senator
Shirley M. Tilghman, Former President, Princeton University

3 college presidents
Two former republican senators ( but I kind of like Olympia)
Two media company representatives
California Community Foundation, Woodrow Wilson Foundation and League of Women Voters - clearly no axes to grind here
God knows what the remaining LLCs/LLPs are all about

Non-partisan, my petutie! Two party system reigns supreme!

This whole election cycle is ridiculous!

All those who feel that Johnson should be in the debates might boycott the first debate and see what the reaction is. Get several million viewers to simply not tune in and the sponsors may notice.

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.

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.

GOOD he doesn't belong there.

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

strongly recommend reading...Two Tyrants...book about the democratic/republican stranglehold on the our election process...

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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.

I tend to think the article is correct about Democrat fears of Johnson are true because if Democrats thought he would only draw votes from Trump, I would expect the Democratic establishment with the help of some anti-Trump Republicans would work under the radar to get Johnson included.

Edit: When I said this article was correct about Democrat fears, I was referring to the similar article freedomforall posted: https://www.galtsgulchonline.com/post...
I liked both articles. My speculation about the Democrat establishment is based on quotes from the other article.