This will be the end of the line, I think.
No way they can have a 2% floor moving forward.
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ABC News announces details for third Democratic primary debate
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This will be the end of the line, I think.
No way they can have a 2% floor moving forward.
Or they should just do 1 night and cut half the field of joke 1% candidates
The people that i have narrowed it down to that I like in no particular order are Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Andrew Yang. Joe is really starting to be a stretch with his age and mess ups lately thought.
At least it's not Yang AND Williamson. I can only handle so much.
Maybe Iowa and New Hampshire polling, it's all I can think of. She has a good grassroots fundraising for someone whose polling ~1% nationally.
But, honestly, I'd rather see her than Yang, Gabbard, Williamson, or any of the other extreme longshot edge candidates who have only qualified because of internet meme celebrity.
In Tulsi's case, a Russian bot campaign to flood social media over the next couple weeks to get her to poll just over 2% in places where polls are likely being drawn from... Iowa, New Hampshire, Michigan, etc.
joe biden and elizibeth warren? im pretty sure they haven't been together yet
I mean, there's also the potential that her actual supporters may keep talking about her? Not discounting that bots are a thing, but the support she has isn't just from Russia. If it weren't for the weird criteria the DNC has for qualifying polls, she'd already be in. Heck, the CNN one that just came out that has her at 2% and that also qualifies, also has a 6% margin of error. Not exactly a great poll when compared to ones that also have her qualifying, and yet don't count.
gabbard: *breathes*
liberals: "uhh it's a russian bot campaign"
*i do not like gabbard as a candidate don't even bother quoting me about that
liberals: "uhh it's a russian bot campaign"
*i do not like gabbard as a candidate don't even bother quoting me about that
Hoping for Bernie, Joe, and Warren on the same stage. Time for Joe to get wrecked. Time to sundown at home with your wife, Joe. Not in the oval office.
Hopefully the DNC after this debate to the bottom half of the field:
Yeah, this is very likely to be the end of the line for half of them.
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Nice to see Castro still holding on
Also kinda curious if we will see a somewhat different/re-energized Beto after he went mask-off in the wake of the El Paso shooting
Inslee ought to get a relevant cabinet position no matter who wins imo
Also kinda curious if we will see a somewhat different/re-energized Beto after he went mask-off in the wake of the El Paso shooting
Inslee ought to get a relevant cabinet position no matter who wins imo
No they all get another debate, some may even make the next one that missed this one. So, we have two more debates to go with all of these people.
Hopefully by December we have just 8 or so up there. I'd take less.
people are mostly laughing at how most of them are shitty to be fair
Are you for real? why don't you read up on his agendas first before dismissing him. He's by far the only candidate that is addressing and solving real issues.
Actually at this point I would prefer we have two nights of debates instead of 10 people on stage.
Also Yang qualifying is great, he is bringing a very important topic to the table that's overlooked by other candidates - automation.
There is plenty more debates to come, I'm sure by November/December the field will shrink to 4-5 candidates - looking like Biden, Sanders & Warren will be front runners and a few people staying in the race with between 3-5%. Once actually primaries come around a lot of these candidates will drop out as their money runs out very quickly as they try to actually use their cash in the early primary states.
Also Yang qualifying is great, he is bringing a very important topic to the table that's overlooked by other candidates - automation.
There is plenty more debates to come, I'm sure by November/December the field will shrink to 4-5 candidates - looking like Biden, Sanders & Warren will be front runners and a few people staying in the race with between 3-5%. Once actually primaries come around a lot of these candidates will drop out as their money runs out very quickly as they try to actually use their cash in the early primary states.
I kinda wish we had some sort of "ranked polling" to decide this shit. "Who's your first choice? Who's your second? Third?" There's a lot of "all basically the same to me" candidates this year. I like most of them, but I also hope all of them but one drop out quickly after Iowa. Preferably before even.
They should split the debates in two by ranked polling averages.
At this point it's malpractice to not have Biden/Warren/Sanders facing off, and the also-rans relegated to somewhere else.
At this point it's malpractice to not have Biden/Warren/Sanders facing off, and the also-rans relegated to somewhere else.
That's literally how the RNC ran it in 2015 and the second debate was called the junior varsity debates, which was not a good look either.
The first voting events aren't until next year another round of two nights is fine, though the next round should require ~5% polling to be on the stage.
Until then it's good to get other ideas on the stage. Either to expand the conversation or dismiss it.
With his capped 1k a month UBI that takes from other social safety nets? Lmao
Or maybe it's his conservative rhetoric on immigration that really gets you going
Having the same requirements for the October debate is dumb. There's no reason they shouldn't be higher.
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Here's the ABC News link, for anyone else looking for it:
I know Yang gets a lot of momentum online, but... I'm still wondering why he's here and closer to center stage (I assume based on polling/donors) than more qualified candidates. Nothing against him personally, he seems like a nice guy, but maybe he should run for office (any office) before taking a shot at the presidency. And he's just kind of riding this populist $1k/mo promise onto the national stage. I'm glad someone's talking about automation and some form of UBI safety net, but... it'd be nice if there was some kind of proof that he could do the job.
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The June and July debates also had the same requirements (slightly lower than the September/October requirements). Personally, I don't think this is a bad way to go. Less opportunity for campaigns to claim that the rules are pushing out too many candidates too soon. Still giving opportunities to candidates who launched their campaigns later than others to make their case. And a chance for candidates to "catch up" from June to July, from September to October. But still a gradual winnowing of the field.
And there's still the chance some of these candidates may drop out before October, if they don't see a bump from this debate.
Everybody on one stage is going to be such a clown show. I can't wait until the also-rans get the hell out of the way and we're down to just Sanders, Warren, and then like 2 or 3 others.
This would be my preference. 10 people is too many to get thoughtful responses for more than one or two questions.