The electoral system that Lessig hopes to reform is keeping him out of October's DNC debate.

[LiberalArkie]

Larry Lessig is a law professor, and he’s running for president of the United States. But it’s not his job, but his message, that makes him stand out.

A law-professor president wouldn’t be so unusual. Bill Clinton is a former law professor (Hillary too). Barack Obama was, technically, a "senior lecturer" at the University of Chicago Law School, which for the University of Chicago is close enough to being an actual professor.

But although law professors are, as I can attest, the salt of the earth — nature’s noblemen, really — voters could be forgiven for looking at the last 20 years or so and concluding that “law professor” isn’t the strongest of selling points for a presidential candidate.

And Lessig, a Harvard law professor who is running for the Democratic nomination, isn’t stressing his employment history. Instead, he’s running as an insurgent against the powers that be. According to Lessig, whom I interviewed by phone last week, “I’ve come to the view that we’re at a crisis of governance, and a Democratic candidate who promises the moon can’t focus on this.”

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/10/11/glenn-reynolds-larry-lessig-trying-heard-electoral-reform-dnc-debate-column/73775182/

[yeoman6987]

1. I am torn.

Rules are you need to have 1 percent support or at least a noticeable blip to gain access to debates. The other thing is then we'd have to include the other 20 candidates who are running on the democratic side. Although it'd be nice to hear his message since we only have 5 candidates.