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REFORM NEEDED IN WAKE OF VICE-PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE (10/03)                                    

GROUPS CALL ON CPD TO MAKE DEBATE CONTRACT PUBLIC (09/18)                                         

MAJORITY OF VOTERS SUPPORT INCLUSION OF BOB BARR IN DEBATES  (09/05)                                                                      

CPD MUST BE REPLACED AS PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE SPONSOR                                                                         

"I'm trying to forget the whole damn experience of those debates. 'Cause I think it's too much show business and too much prompting, too much artificiality, and not really debates. They're rehearsed appearances."
Former President George Bush