The US presidential Election 2016 continues to generate both interest and confusion.
Adding a new dimension are reports and polls that both the candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are among the least popular major-party candidates ever to run for the White House.
Some citizens are hoping that a third party candidate will be included in the presidential debates – a rare prospect since Democrats and the Republicans both have traditionally dominated the political discourse in the election year.
According to the rules of Commission on Presidential Debates, only those candidates could be part of the Presidential Debates who are polled 15% in five national surveys. Two other parties Libertarian and Green party were hopeful to get to the Presidential Debate but the Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson and Green party’s Dr. Jill Stein were unable to cross the threshold. Johnson got polls 12% nationwide and Dr. Stein peaked to 6%, and they lost the chance to be invited to the presidential debates.
Larry J. Sabato, an expert on American politics, authored 20 books and a professor at the University of Virginia (UVA) is not very hopeful about both the candidates and states that people dislike both candidates and said that “Donald Trump is a mad man in my view and could blow up the world.”
“Hillary Clinton won’t blow the world but for 25 years she has refused to admit that she has a duty to tell the whole story,” Sabato adds.
A media company in Washington, DC run by a Pakistani American Nuzaira Azam “The Global Beat,” has decided to bring up the political issues through a panel discussion program that will focus on issues that remain hidden or have been ignored by the public, especially the South Asian Americans.
The panel consist of South Asia experts, Dr. Walter Andersen from Johns Hopkins University, John Lennon, a retired expert from Voice of America, Pakistani American working journalists, Anwar Iqbal from Dawn and Faiz Rehman, Urdu Service Chief, Voice of America. Views and News Editor Ali Imran will anchor the discussion.
This program will be live cast through social media including the Facebook on September 03 from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm (EST).
