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REFORM NEEDED IN WAKE OF VICE-PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE (10/03)                                    

GROUPS CALL ON CPD TO MAKE DEBATE CONTRACT PUBLIC (09/18)                                         

MAJORITY OF VOTERS SUPPORT INCLUSION OF BOB BARR IN DEBATES  (09/05)                                                                      

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"There's something that stinks about this. It's fundamentally undemocratic. It's awfully close to corruption. There's something unhealthy about this. If this group can arbitrarily rule that a billionaire who gets 20 million votes and qualifies for $30 million in election funds can't participate then God help the rest of us."
Jesse Jackson, after Perot was excluded from the presidential debates in 1996