Remember the people who were saying we should be nice to Jill Stein?

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429. I'm a high school teacher in the NY metro area

and one of my students had a parent who worked at Hofstra University who won two tickets to the 2012 presidential debate in an office lottery. My incredibly excited 17 year old student went with her mom.

I asked her the next day how the debate was, and the first thing she told me about was about woman arguing loudly with security and police, demanding to be let into the arena because she was part of the debate. She caused such a ruckus that she was taken away when she refused to leave. Ah, I thought, Jill Stein showed up.

My student, who was really smart, enjoyed the debate, but the other thing that stuck in her mind was this: Obama and Romney were both so larger than life and handsome that they didn't look like regular people; they looked like movie stars! The crazy person (at least in the eyes of my student who had no idea that she was a third party candidate) and the handsome candidates were the two things she kept talking about. Ah, to be 17...

Neither third party candidate reached the 15% threshold this week to qualify for the debate, so neither will be on the debate stage. I wonder if Jill will show up at the debates anyway.