It's official. Gary Johnson fails to qualify for the Presidential Debates.

[Slutty Mathlete]

Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein will not participate in the first presidential debate, and their running mates will not be in the vice presidential debate, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced Friday.

 

The decision means Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump will be the only two candidates on the stage on September 26, and Tim Kaine and Mike Pence, their respective running mates, will be the only participants on October 4.

 

The candidates needed to make a 15% polling threshold across several major national polls in order to qualify for the debates. The commission determined that the polling averages for the candidates had Clinton at 43%, Trump at 40.4%, Johnson at 8.4% and Stein at 3.2%.

 

Johnson has publicly said that being excluded from the debates would doom his campaign.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/16/politics/johnson-stein-fail-to-qualify-for-first-debate/index.html

[양 지]

a shocker

[Non.]

a shocker

[Xiaolei]

As if joining the debates would help him 

What's Aleppo, again, Johnson? 

[Juumcoon]

That Aleppo scandal really doomed him

[Frogurt]

As if joining the debates would help him 

What's Aleppo, again, Johnson? 

 

 

That Aleppo scandal really doomed him

 

It was depressing seeing his supporters claim that probably almost nobody knows what Aleppo is and that it was a "gotcha question." 

[Slutty Mathlete]

I don't think Aleppo had all that much to do with it in the end. His high water mark in the polling was just shy of 10% so he never really got close. In the US people flirt with the extra parties, but generally most come home when they go in the booth to vote. I expect that to happen this year.

[Xiaolei]

I don't think Aleppo had all that much to do with it in the end. His high water mark in the polling was just shy of 10% so he never really got close. In the US people flirt with the extra parties, but generally most come home when they go in the booth to vote. I expect that to happen this year.

 

Yeah, I agree. I just think it's funny he thinks going on the debates would help him after he revealed such an crippling flaw in his knowledge base. If he doesn't even know Aleppo, he'd probably bomb any and all foreign policy questions at a debate.

 

 

It was depressing seeing his supporters claim that probably almost nobody knows what Aleppo is and that it was a "gotcha question." 

 

Of all the straw to grasp at...