Talk:United States presidential election debates

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Cleanup Taskforce page → Edit | Purge ==United States presidential election debates== The section on sponsorship of the debates is in desperate need of updating and expanding. --Dylan Lake 01:28, 27 September 2006 (UTC) Note: This taskforce request has not been updated for 6 months.

"Commission on Presidential Debates" redirects to this page. There should be a seperate article for "Commission on Presidential Debates" as this page is about the presidential debates, in general, which have been historically sponsored by organizations other than the Commission on Presidential Debate and may be sponsored by other organizations in the future. The Commission on Presidential Debates is a seperate and distict organization.

This isn't an Encyclopedia entry: it's an essay (and a rather unfocussed, obtuse and poorly phrased essay at that). It requires some quite detailed attention to bring it up to standard. Oxymoron 09:31, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

I'm going to have a go at touching this up over the next couple of days, however would this also classify as orginal research article? Grandwazir 17:38, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

There is an article in this subject but it's going to need to be dug out of this term paper. The author does provide some information about the debates in 1960, 1976, and 2004. But there should also be information about other Presidential debates; the pre-nomination debates between the candidates of each party; the format of the debates and the organizations that run them; the impact of the debates on the campaigns; and the presense or absense of third party candidates. MK2 01:44, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Most of this article seems to be about the U.S. presidential election debates, 2004. This should be about the history of the debates, so any information not needed in this article can either be deleted or merged. --Revolución (talk) 20:45, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

I've added an intro and cleaned up the history section. --Revolución (talk) 17:53, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

I have finished cleaning up the article. --Revolución (talk) 18:52, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

The article is much improved, though it still starts off with the labored "the two main candidates (almost always the candidates of the two main parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, engage in a debate." Can this be phrased more frankly and directly, still leaving the exclusion of third-party candidates to a section buried well down in the text? --Wetman 00:34, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Why is it always held at WashU and Missouri?

[edit] Vice Presidential Debate

In 1988 it was a presidental debate (series) between then Vice-President George Bush Sr, and Governor Michael Dukakis (MA) and also one Vice Presidential debate between former senator Dan Quale, and Texas Senator Loyd Benson. ( Its in both Dan Quayle's bio and Lloyd Bensons bio...)

--Artoftransformation 10:01, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Criticism section?

This article really needs one, because many people are unhappy with these debates because of the near-universal exclusion of third parties and independents as well as the parallel interview format. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.20.237.118 (talk) 16:02, 9 June 2008 (UTC)