Democrats Set Dates for Six Presidential Debates.(Sorry if 'old' news.)
The Democratic National Committee on Thursday announced its schedule for six presidential debates, which will begin in October and continue through February or March, with one debate in each of the four early primary and caucus states, plus one in Miami and another in Wisconsin.
The calendar is likely to satisfy front-runner Hillary Clinton and has already angered other candidates hoping to get more attention from voters and the media.
The first debate will be on Oct. 13 in Nevada, co-hosted by CNN and the state's Democratic Party, followed by a Nov. 14 debate in Des Moines at Drake University hosted by CBS, KCCI, and the Des Moines Register.
“The DNC just released their debate schedule, and it is one of the slimmest that I have ever seen.”
O'Malley senior strategist Bill Hyers
The party's next debate will be in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Dec. 19, hosted by ABC and WMUR. The South Carolina debate will be on Jan. 17 in Charleston, hosted by NBC and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute. The final two Democratic debates will be held in February or March, one in Miami hosted by Univision and the Washington Post, and the other in Wisconsin hosted by PBS. . .
The five major declared candidates for the Democratic nomination—Clinton, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, former Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee, and former Virginia Senator Jim Webb—shared a stage last month at the Iowa Democratic Party Hall of Fame dinner in Cedar Rapids but spoke separately, as will be the case when they appear at the DNC summer meeting in Minneapolis at the end of August.
While more events like those are on the horizon, the schedule for debates is far slimmer than it was in 2007-08, the last time Democrats had an open nomination process. With more candidates and a more competitive field, the party held 26 debates, which started in the spring of 2007.
Clinton's campaign has been publicly supportive of the six-debate schedule, which limits rivals' opportunities to attack her face to face and which the Clinton campaign hopes will show voters that she is not just coasting to a coronation.
Her best-known opponents are not satisfied.
O'Malley's team was aggressive Thursday in voicing its dismay with the calendar, sending supporters an e-mail with the subject line “Are you kidding me?” and scheduling press conference calls with its Iowa and New Hampshire state directors to rail against the process.
“The DNC just released their debate schedule, and it is one of the slimmest that I have ever seen. Literally. What they’re proposing does not give you, the voters, ample opportunity to hear from the Democratic candidates for president,” O'Malley senior strategist Bill Hyers said in the e-mail. “The DNC has no place determining how many times voters in early states can hear from presidential candidates, and what's ironic is that their schedule has made this process much LESS democratic.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-08-06/dnc-debate-sked-isn-t-democratic-limits-debate-o-malley-aide
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in several states is on February first.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/primary-calendar-and-results.html?_r=0
February
Monday, February 1 Iowa caucus
Tuesday, February 9 New Hampshire
Saturday, February 20 South Carolina
Tuesday, February 23 Nevada caucus
Read more at http://www.uspresidentialelectionnews.com/2016-presidential-primary-schedule-calendar/#ou43xwB3lek3Cqk4.99
Before all of the debates have even been conducted.
