Proposed Obama/McCain town hall meeting at the LBJ Library

by: boo

Fri Jun 13, 2008 at 02:22 PM CDT

The McCain camp, which has been pressuring Obama to participate in a whole series of joint town hall meetings with the Republican nominee, has already accepted the invitation.  No word, yet, from the Obama campaign.  

The two campaigns have been wrangling over the number and type of joint appearances they will agree to before the election.  The McCain camp initially proposed ten such meetings to take place before the Democratic and Republican conventions.  The Obama campaign has countered with an offer to participate in one joint town hall meeting in July, in addition to three traditional debates and an in-depth foreign policy debate in August.  The McCain camp says that is insufficient and are obviously hoping that they can make this a campaign issue, as did Clinton.

The LBJ/Reagan press release states that "A respected, independent polling organization will be brought on to ensure that the audiences will represent a cross-section of the American people."  I have written to Anne Wheeler with the LBJ Library asking how the public will submit themselves for consideration. I will update this diary with details if I hear anything.