Court denies request to list Johnson as Libertarian in Ohio

One major unknown: Will outsider candidates like Libertarian Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Jill Stein – averaging Monday about 8 percent and 3 percent support nationally, respectively – make it on the event stage? They are not. A look at a national poll from Quinnipiac University provides a snapshot of the race and the dour narrative fueling it: A majority of voters don’t like either candidate. So we’re optimistic that we’re going to actually get into the debates.

A total of 62% of respondents answered yes. “I believe a great many Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans are looking for the same.” says Sarwark in conclusion.

The commission has come under fire in recent years for its exclusionary policies, and has been criticized in the past for allegedly colluding with major party candidates by informing them of debate questions ahead of time and allowing them to influence how debates are run.

“He could win the presidency outright”, Howell asserted. The invitation of third party candidate to participate has always been a source of contention. In this interview with NEWS CENTER’s Pat Callaghan, he talks about his stance on everything from marijuana, to military spending and even gives his opinion on how to fix the state’s drug epidemic.

That limitation has been the source of multiple lawsuits, but no candidate has successfully challenged it. Party activists successfully collected enough signatures to get Johnson on the ballot by way of a process for independent candidates.

“The Presidential Debate Commission has identified five polls”, he said, referring to the surveys on which qualification with a 15% threshold will be based.

Bill Weld and his Libertarian Party running mate – presidential nominee Gary Johnson – were in Boston Saturday asking Bay State voters for their support. “You know that, right?”

“The appeal of Johnson is that there is part of the Latino electorate who don’t trust either Clinton or Trump”, Ariel Armony, a political scientist at the University of Pittsburgh and an expert in Latino politics, told Fox News Latino.

They have tried to marry the party’s philosophies of limited government and individual freedom with the fiscal conservatism espoused by Republicans and social views embraced by Democrats.