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Old 09-03-2008, 10:58 AM   #2644
chesapeake
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Originally Posted by albionmoonlight View Post
IIRC, most of the tickets are allocated to the media and insiders. I think that each campaign has some tickets to give away (and the venue has some tickets to give away) which they do through a lottery.

Your best bet may be to wait until the venues are announced and then go to each candidate website and see what they say about getting tickets.

I know when there was a debate scheduled in Raleigh for the Democratic primary, very few tickets were available to the general public through lottery.

I can only imagine that the Presidental debates are even more restricted.

The debates are managed by the non-profit Commission on Presidential Debates: hxxp://www.debates.org/. They control the tickets, provided the campaigns agree to play it that way, with the intent of not allowing either side to plant the audiences.

Last edited by chesapeake : 09-03-2008 at 12:29 PM. Reason: typo
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