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Buchanan, Nader officially excluded from Oct* 3 debate WASHINGTON — Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan will not partici pate in the first presidential debate next week because they failed to meet the criteria for inclusion set by the bipartisan Commission on Presidential De bates, the panel announced Tuesday. Only Repub lican George W. Bush and De mocrat Al Gore will take part. The first of three 90-minute presidential NATIONAL ELECTIONS debates next month is scheduled for Oct. 3 in Boston. Candidates seeking to participate must appear on enough state bal lots to have a chance of winning a majority of Electoral College votes. They also must have an average of 15 percent support in five major na tional polls, according to the com mission’s criteria. Buchanan, the Reform Party can didate, and Nader, running under the Green Party banner, both have been mired in low single digits in these surveys. Bush and Gore, meanwhile, drew more than 40 percent support in the most recent polls. Nader said “the polls are rigged” because they don’t consider non voters — who are his target audi ence and a growing majority. “Fifty-one percent of eligible vot ers do not vote," Nader said. His campaign is using 800 coordinators nationwide to reach out to college students who have not voted before. The commission’s decision also means Buchanan’s and Nader’s running mates will be excluded from the 90-minute vice presiden tial debate scheduled for Oct. 5 in Danville, Ky. Campaign officials said they were disappointed, though not sur prised by the announcement. “The real loss here is for the American people,” said Nader spokeswoman Laura Jones. Buchanan spokesman Tim Halev said: “We clearly believe, as the only (third) party that is receiving taxpayer funds, that we ought to be in those debates.” The debate commission said it will reapply the criteria to the candi dates before the presidential debates scheduled for Oct. 11 in Winston Salem, N.C., and Oct. 17 in St. Louis. Associated Press keep in touch www.dailyemerald.com Senators ask Bush, Gore to follow New York lead on soft money issue WASHINGTON — The Senate’s leading supporters of campaign fi nance legislation appealed to A1 Gore and George W. Bush on Tues day to follow the lead set in New York’s Senate race and ban soft money ads in their battle for the White House. “In the same spirit that motivat ed the Lazio-Clinton agreement, we respectfully encourage you to at tempt to make a similar agreement in your race,” wrote Sens. John Mc Cain, R-Ariz., and Russell Fein gold, D-Wis. “Specifically, we urge you ... to reject any efforts by political parties to use soft money to run independ ent radio or television advertise ments in an attempt to influence your race, and to appeal to inde pendent organizations to refrain from doing the same.” Similar letters were sent to all can didates for the House and Senate. Bush spokeswoman Mindy Tucker said of the proposal: “We will take it under review.” Gore’s campaign noted such a challenge was pending. “A1 Gore challenged George Bush months ago to forgo soft money in this cam paign and to drop soft-money ads,” spokesman Doug Hattaway said. Rep. Rick Lazio and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, battling for a Senate seat in New York, reached an agreement over the weekend that would prohibit any political parties endorsing them from airing TV and radio ads boost ing them or attacking their oppo nents. That applies to the Republi can and Conservative parties on Lazio’s side and the Democratic, Liberal and Working Families par ties on Mrs. Clinton’s. Violations will be punished re ciprocally: If one side buys $100,000 worth of air time, the oth er side can do the same. In the presidential race, Bush and Gore are both benefiting from advertisements paid for with soft money — donations made in un limited amounts. In addition, the parties are spending millions more to help congressional candidates. “This week, Congressman Rick Lazio and first lady Hillary Clinton voluntarily agreed in their New York Senate race to what we have been advocating for all federal elec tions: a ban on party soft money broadcast advertising,” McCain and Feingold wrote in the letters, this one to Gore. “A ban on soft money — the unregulated, unlim ited contributions that flow in in creasing amounts into federal elec tions — represents a major reform in American politics, and we com mend Congressman Lazio and Mrs. Clinton for their willingness to lim it its use in their race. “If you are able to reach such an agreement with Governor Bush, we believe that voters will take note of your leadership and react favorably to your support for better, fairer elections. 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