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Carole Simpson

Candy Crowley Will Be the First Female Presidential Moderator in 20 Years

by Alanna Bennett | 4:15 pm, August 13th, 2012

We told you a while ago about three rather impressive teenage girls who were petitioning the Commission on Presidential Debates for the commission to appoint a female moderator to the presidential debates. When we last checked in on them, the trio weren’t doing so well; the office of the commission wouldn’t see them.

News came out today, however, that either someone was listening or they’d had their own plans all along: The first female presidential moderator in 20 years has been named for this election season; another will moderate the vice-presidential debate. So let’s congratulate them.

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Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

Three Teenagers Petition for a Female Moderator of Presidential Debate

by Alanna Bennett | 2:00 pm, August 1st, 2012

A woman hasn’t run a presidential debate in twenty years. When three high school girls from New Jersey heard about this in their civics class, they decided to take matters into their own hands. Emma Axelrod, Sammi Siegel and Elena Tsemberis have spent their summer collecting 170,000 signatures on a petition to have one of this year’s presidential debates moderated by a woman. But will Capitol Hill listen to them? 

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