If they can get into a debate with the major party candidates, then they've got an opportunity.

The challenge now for Chris Coleman is to hold his DFL base and bring in the Green Party without diminishing his ability to appeal to the center.

Even though the party has been open to intellectual debate and even though the prime minister said he wanted a battle of ideas, it became apparent that this government could not face the party through such avenues and resorted to such draconian measures.

The debate going on between us is really a debate about whether we want to take the Democratic Party back to where it was before Bill Clinton transformed it in 1992, or whether we want to take it forward,

This is Kaine's debate. It's Kaine's audience. It's probably Kaine's region, ... one of the most one-sided debates I've ever seen.

We've said all along that as soon as we figure out who's qualified, we'll debate those folks.