The Commission on Presidential Debates announced the five polls it will use to determine candidate popularity as a measure to secure a spot on the debate stage. The commission has hosted every general election presidential and vice presidential debate since 1988 and requires candidates to be polling at least 15% in an average of five national polls to be eligible to participate.
Those five polls will be ABC-Washington Post, CBS-New York Times, CNN-Opinion Research Corp., Fox News and NBC-Wall Street Journal for the 2016 debates. The commission said those five polls were chosen with advice from Frank Newport, the editor in chief of polling powerhouse Gallup.....
http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-trailguide-updates-presidential-debate-commission-1471289382-htmlstory.html
Even if you don't agree with them, it is important that at least one if not two third party candidates are represented to shop people they have a choice other than the Republicrat monopoly of the Trump/Clinton ticket.
