The Democratic National Committee has lifted the qualifying bar to cut down the number of people seriously in the running for the nomination…
The lower tier candidates are running out of political oxygen and money…
No amount of gripping is gonna change things…
The winner has to do this within the way things are….
The Democratic National Committee announced Friday that it raised the bar to qualify for its January debate, requiring candidates to have at least 5% in four qualifying polls or 7% in two early-state polls — as well as 225,000 unique donors.
Why it matters: Upping the stakes is likely to further reduce the number of candidates who reach the debate stage ahead of February’s Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary.
I.e. all the candidates we saw on Thursday night minus the two multi-millionaires, Tom Steyer and Andrew Yang. (Michael Bloomberg has never qualified.)
What remains are the office-holders: one former Vice-President, three Senators and one Mayor.
And no Governors among them — although four of the five Presidents in the 32 years between 1977 and 2009 were current or former governors: Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Geo. W. Bush. Only one of those eight terms ( = 4 years out of 32) was not presided over by a Governor or ex-Governor: George H. W. Bush’s single term from 1989 to 1993.
On the other hand, only four of the 12 Presidents since 1953 (like four of the five current Democratic leaders) have also served in the U.S. Senate: JFK, LBJ, Nixon and Barack Obama, for fewer than 22 years of the last 66.
After a NYC Real Estate guy is acting poorly as President?
Why NOT put a career politician back in the Presidency?
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is rejecting a recent request from tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang to commission new early-state polling ahead of the January presidential primary debate to make up for the lack of surveys during the holiday season.
Yang sent a letter to DNC Chairman Tom Perez on Dec. 21 asking him to commission four polls before the Jan. 10 qualifying deadline for next month’s debate….
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