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The party affiliation does not necessarily reflect a persons true position....there are many RINOs out there. False flag is a democrat specialty.

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...BI PARTISAN ???....MY BALLS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I disagree with the authors racist and sexist assertion that white males can't adequately run the commission. The author, being filled with such racist hatred, obviously isn't able to reason well on this. It's not that they're old while men, it's that they're all leftist. And please, don't try to argue that just because some are "Republicans" that this doesn't make them liberals. Swamp creature Republicans are exactly the same as Democrats.

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None of you made mention that the Commission excludes any third party candidate unless they reach unreasonable poll numbers.

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a reporter with a profile pic like yours is not trustworthy at all. it makes me so sad, man. just show your real face, its alright to be fat

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Why is white not capitalized, while black, latina and asian are in your article?

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After seeing the first Presidential debate and seeing Scully's remark to Scaramucci, it's clear we need a change. One exception to the problem was Susan Page who moderated the Vice Presidential debate. She may be liberal (I'm guessing since I don't know anything about her), but I thought she was fair with both candidates and did a very nice job of moderating. She seemed to be timing both of them equally and interrupted both of them when their time was up, and I never saw her actually joining in the debate the way Chris Wallace did.

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1. You said, "...the commission knows it can’t select commentators or hosts from Fox News or MSNBC; ..."

Did you not watch the first debate wherein Chris Wallace of Fox News questioned the candidates?

2. You have a reasonable point to make, but the ageism openly voiced in this essay are discouraging and tiresome, although to some degree my fed-up-edness is cumulative - we've been subjected to it for an awfully long time by an awfully large number of opinion-shapers.

3. Your naivete is almost amusing in that you apparently think that the "quality" (as judged by you?) of the questions asked will have ANYthing to do with the answers the candidates give. They don't answer questions - they give carefully rehearsed, carefully timed, canned answers ** to the questions they wish the mods would ask.

** Exception: President Trump who just rambles whatever pops into his head.

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Author takes issue with members of commission being 70+ in their ages and white.

Has the author looked at the two nominees for POTUS 2020?

Author states the commission would never have a moderator from Fox News.

Does the author realize the 1st debate was moderated by Chris Wallace... of Fox News.

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i'd be happy to sign up but you have to unblock me on twitter first. @joelockhart

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Yashar, until lately I’d never given this committee a first thought much less a second. What you’ve reported though not only is informative but enlightening as well. Certainly it would make sense to diversify this bunch and for gods sake, get some younger faces on board. My generation(I’m 74 so that should tell everyone straight off)has made a perfect hash out of things so far so I’m all for letting those with skin in the game take charge to see if they can demand better of their leaders than we have of ours. Sad but terribly true.

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Agree. But maybe give Antonia Hernandez an asterisk. Long career pre-philanthropy/CCF in social justice, MALDEF, etc.

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Thank you for such an informative, well-reasoned analysis.

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