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Are These Debates Or Synchronized Swimming?
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/are_these_debates_or_synchronized_swimming.php
Tough fight over debate rules
By Kevin Anderson BBC News Online in Washington
Lawyers for George W Bush and John Kerry have taken weeks to hammer out a 32-page document laying out the ground rules for the upcoming US presidential election debates.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3702124.stm
Dubious Debates/Dubious Polls
http://www.accuracy.org/press_releases/PR092704.htm
Let Nader Debate
http://www.petitiononline.com/ralph04/petition.html
Ralph Nader on Tonight's "Debate"
http://www.votenader.com/media_press/index.php?cid=231

Greens Blast Restricted, Artificial Presidential Debate, Call for Open Debates.
http://www.gp.org/press/pr_09_29_04.html
Post-Debate Fact-Checking Is Media's Main Job
http://www.fair.org/press-releases/debate-fact-checking.html

You Call This a Democracy?
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/1115
Florida Will Not Play Fair
by Jimmy Carter, The Guardian
The former president co-chaired a commission on elections after the 2000 debacle--and says Florida does not meet international voting standards.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1314125,00.html
Black Voter Registration Breaking Records:
But white war schizophrenia will determine election
http://www.blackcommentator.com/107/107_cover_election.html