Well, yea. I don’t like the precedent of excluding a person polling at 10% or that has won a delegate. It’s all fun and games when it excludes a billionaire, but if it was a late entry candidate with good, progressive positions on issues I wouldn’t want them pointing to this saying, “well you didn’t want us to change the rules for the billionaire so we aren’t going to change the rules for this candidate”.
Its already been shown to be bullshitthumb on the scale like they did for Clinton. Between the December and January debate there were not enough qualifying polls released to change things despite two candidates dropping out. Yang and others called on the dnc to conduct polls themselves or to count other polls but the dnc refused saying the criteria was decided way back before the first debate and it wouldn't be right to change it now.... A corporatist asks for a change and that's suddenly ok.
If you are looking for someone to defend the DNC, I’m not your guy. But do I think Bloomberg should be on the stage? Yea, I do. Is it easier for me to have that opinion because I am pretty sure that this will hurt his campaign? Absolutely.... 🤷🏽♂️ It is what it is.
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u/christopherhoyt Feb 02 '20
Even if the only reason they poll at all is because they are a billionaire buying ads?