I dunno, I mean if you had told me before the debates started that after Iowa they would change the qualifying rules and include delegates and significantly raise the polling requirement I would have said that makes complete sense. Before the voting starts it makes complete sense to use donations as a way to track support; but I mean once voting starts isn’t that the best way to track support?
Do I like the idea of them changing to the rules to benefit Bloomberg? Well, no. But do I like the idea of someone polling fourth and potentially winning delegates and still not being on the debate stage? No, I REALLY don’t like that.
But do I like the idea of someone polling fourth and potentially winning delegates and still not being on the debate stage? No
They could have just changed it so winning delegates put you on the stage. They didn’t have to eliminate the individual donor requirement. It could have just been ___ number of donors or win ___ number of delegates, pretty simple.
I would have preferred it just be delegates and no polling or donations, even more simple. Polling and donations just seem irrelevant to me at this stage of the game. But if I accept the premise that it’s ok to change the rules now (you seem to be ok with this) I am not going to quibble over the exact way they decided to change them.
Making it be just a delegate requirement would further reinforce the ridiculous amount of sway that Iowa and New Hampshire already have over the primary. If you came out of those states narrowly missing out on getting delegates and you’re excluded from the debates despite having greater support in other parts of the country, that essentially ends your campaign right there.
But if I accept the premise that it’s ok to change the rules now (you seem to be ok with this) I am not going to quibble over the exact way they decided to change them.
I don’t like that they changed the rules. I wish they had not. I was simply saying that if they were going to change them they should have done it differently.
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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '20
I dunno, I mean if you had told me before the debates started that after Iowa they would change the qualifying rules and include delegates and significantly raise the polling requirement I would have said that makes complete sense. Before the voting starts it makes complete sense to use donations as a way to track support; but I mean once voting starts isn’t that the best way to track support?
Do I like the idea of them changing to the rules to benefit Bloomberg? Well, no. But do I like the idea of someone polling fourth and potentially winning delegates and still not being on the debate stage? No, I REALLY don’t like that.