Click here to Sign the Petition: Open up the 2012 Presidential Debates! All presidential candidates who've qualified for enough state ballots to win the White House must be included in the debates. Green candidate Jill Stein and Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson have qualified for enough ballots and are receiving taxpayer dollars in the form of FEC matching funds. Yet both are excluded by the Commission on Presidential Debates, which is run by Democrats and Republicans and is corporate sponsored.
Read in-depth about the corporate sponsorship of the Commission on Presidential Debates by Santa Monica College Associated Students President (2011-12) Harrison Wills and here by John Nichols of the Nation Magazine.