Lynn University in the running for 2012 presidential debate

Sun-Sentinel ^ | April 1, 2011 | Scott Travis

[TheDingoAteMyBaby]

President Bush and John Kerry duked it out at the University of Miami in 2004. John McCain and his Republican challengers debated at FAU in 2008. Could the 2012 election be Lynn University’s time to shine? The Commission on Presidential Debates is listing Lynn, a small Boca Raton university, as one of 12 possible sites to hold a presidential or vice presidential debate next year. It’s the only contender in Florida. President Kevin Ross said the university is “delighted and honored” to be in the running, adding it would be held at the Keith C. and Elaine Johnson World Performing Arts Center, where the university held the heated U.S. congressional debate in 2010 between Allen West and the incumbent he defeated, Ron Klein.

“We look forward to the opportunity to contribute to public discourse, open debate and the free exchange of ideas,” Ross said.

[TheDingoAteMyBaby]

Here are the other schools being considered:

Belmont University (Nashville, Tenn.)
Centre College (Danville, Ky.)
Dominican University of California (San Rafael, Calif.)
Eastern Kentucky University (Richmond, Ky.)
Hofstra University (Hempstead, N.Y.)
Indiana University (Bloomington, Ind.)
Saint Mary’s College of California (Moraga, Calif.)
The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey (Pomona, N.J.)
University of Denver (Denver, Colo.)
Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, Mo.)

[iowamark]

The “Commission on Presidential Debates” is a fraud that needs to go away.

[theDentist]

Why hold them in a University or College at all? Why not in a city auditorium, an arena, some other location?
Universities are packed with liberals... enemy territory.
Oooo, am I supposed to say ‘enemy’?