Some people have pointed this out several times.

[Blue_true]

I now believe that having a massive field with people still jumping in is hurting focus on the democratic primary race from voters.

The DNC maybe should have tightened up entry races, for example, only polls from closed primary or caucus states count in the polling requirement, and each candidate in debates must raise $4 million dollars and have 200,000 unique donors. Something to quickly knock some people off the debate state and let the frontrunners debate.

I believe that all the complaining (untrue) about the DNC "fixing" the 2016 race lead DNC leaders to implement a format that would blunt that criticism, but which has led to crowded debates so far, with some people who shouldn't be there on stage.

[Cha]

1. Thank you, Blue_true!

[OldRed2450]

2. They would have been accused of trying to RIG things. nt

[Blue_true]

4. I know. That is the rub. We need to sweep the anti Democratic Party mindset out of the party.

Republicans let the tea party take over, look what that party has become. If people that vote for people like Stein or write in want to get on a presidential ballot, they should go the whole way as a seperate party, that includes in the primary. Our party should be democrats for election of democrats and all candidates would need to buy into that fully to run under the party's banner.

[B Stieg]

3. And Bloomberg filed his paperwork today with the government...

so the field is getting bigger! Uugh.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-new-york-mayor-mike-bloomberg-files-papers-to-join-democratic-race-for-president/2019/11/21/80300b16-0a38-11ea-bd9d-c628fd48b3a0_story.html

[Blue_true]

5. I almost can't wait until Iowa and New Hampshire is done and the field has been cut way down.

Hopefully Bloomberg, Steyer and Patrick meet with resounding disinterest, although Steyer is polling well enough to make the December debate.