{"id":736,"date":"2006-09-28T12:42:39","date_gmt":"2006-09-28T17:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=736"},"modified":"2006-12-21T10:14:51","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T15:14:51","slug":"debate-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=736","title":{"rendered":"Debate luck"},"content":{"rendered":"

I may not be invited to appear at the League of Women Voter’s or Debate Minnesota’s 8th District Congressional Debates but I might make it on Public Television’s Almanac on October 13th.<\/p>\n

I put in a call to Almanac this morning to make an inquiry and was called back by the program’s Assistant Producer. She told me that they have been holding off on calling me because they didn’t know whether I would make the cut or not.<\/p>\n

Almanac’s policy is to\u00c2\u00a0invite any third party candidate who is polling at 5% or higher to debate. If, however, no independent polls have been taken of their race they are given the benefit of the doubt and invited anyway.<\/p>\n

Now I don’t know whether I want a poll or not because if I my poll numbers are too low I’d lose my chance to star on Almanac.\u00c2\u00a0I’ll I have to sit\u00c2\u00a0on pins and needles to find out whether anybody checks the temperature\u00c2\u00a0of the Eighth Congressional District.<\/p>\n

The debate is scheduled for Friday the thirteenth. That must mean bad luck for somebody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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