Analysis: How the Dems should blow up their debates
on.” Thus spoke Marianne Williamson, author and spiritual adviser to the stars, responding to a question at a Democratic presidential debate in which she was, inexplicably, taking part. Standing alongside a former vice president and four U.S. senators, Williamson said her first act as president of the United States would be, naturally, to call New Zealand’s prime minister.off the stage for the second round of 2020 debates, scheduled to be aired next week on CNN.
The inclusion of Williamson and other fringe candidates at the MSNBC debates—and the exclusion of quality, substantive contenders like Montana Gov. Steve Bullock—was the absurd if unintended consequence of the plan for limiting debate participants developed by Tom Perez, chair of the DNC. Perez is a brilliant and dedicated party leader. But he made a mistake with this debate plan, and it could affect our party’s ability to beat Donald Trump in 2020.
The first is the candidates’ performance in three public polls. Intuitively, that makes a degree of sense, because polling seems to measure viability. But the threshold to participate in the July debates is just 1 percent, and the margin of error in most of these polls usually is around 3 percent. That means that a candidate with 0 percent and another with 1 percent could very well have demonstrated.
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