DNC changes the rules regarding the debate stage

[mysteryowl]

I don't know how this works, but it does not seem to be fair. Booker and Castro can't be on the debate stage, but the billionaire that bought his way into the primaries is. Why?

[Rebl2]

1. No it

doesn’t seem fair. Once they made the rules they should stick with them. Not fair to those who dropped out.

[Magoo48]

2. It's fucked up.

Democrats shouldn’t be playing patty cakes with any billionaires, ever. Billionaires by their very existence point to all that is out of balance in our society.

[2naSalit]

4. +1

[LeftTurn3623]

3. call me crazy but I do not have an issue with this

First DNC said that after the first primary it would re-look at the debate qualifications. (although they said to make it harder to get on the stage)

2nd Bloomberg in a recent poll has passed Warren and moved into 3rd nationally. I think voters have the right to hear & see him debate. To see if they want to vote for him.

3rd. Booker & Castro did not actually have any shot at winning. Polling at under 3%. It had nothing to do with them being a minority. Heck Kamala qualified for the debate but dropped out of the race. Bloomberg is polling high.

As a voter I want to see how he does in a debate.

[DaDeacon]

5. loi...

Corporate democrats strike again. Money = Relevance

[thesquanderer]

6. They didn't actually change the rules. Different rules have existed for different debates...

...and no rules had yet been set forth for this one. Since they had not yet announced any rules, they can't have changed them, since there was nothing to change.

But they did make a decision to not use donors as a qualifying element anymore. I think that was always a questionable metric, but it did assure that there was a certain amount of popular support, even before there were a decent number of polls. At this point in the process, polls are probably the better metric of who has popular support. And factoring in who has won delegates--once anybody has--seems reasonable to include as well.

[stopbush]

8. As the field narrows, the number of donors one has becomes pretty irrelevant.

We’re down to maybe five viable candidates from a field of 20. Wherea candidate is in the polls is much more important at this point and how many donors he/she has. What is important is that a candidate has enough money to go forward.

[macone]

7. Money talks...even with the DNC

Before this rule change, Bloomberg gave 1.1 million to the DNC and its PAC.