this is who sponsors the democratic debates.......

[madrchsod]

and this

"What rekindled my interest, however, was the buzz on Monday over the coal industry's sponsorship of at least three CNN debates. If you missed it, the coal industry has created a front group called Americans for Balanced Energy Choices (ABEC) which has a $35 million ad budget in states with primaries and caucuses to snow the public on the idea of "clean coal."

What is most disturbing, however, is the fact that, in those three debates -- including the one Monday night in South Carolina, as well as the CNN/YouTube debates in Nevada and Florida -- not one question was asked about global warming."

from http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/bagnews/2008/01/undebatably-a-b.html
BAGnewsNotes: Undebatably, A Banner Year

more on who buys the questions

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/22/coal-cnn/
Think Progress » No Questions On Global Warming Asked At CNN’s Coal Industry-Sponsored Presidential Debates


http://www.opendebates.org/theissue/corpsponsor.html
Open Debates | Corporate Sponsorship of the Debates

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

1. Only three questions have been asked about global warming.

out of about 2600 questions asked.

[Afje]

2. For as long as we don't have

publically financed elections, we are gonna get "establishment" candidates and more corporate politics.