Next Democratic Debate Announced

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Next Democratic Debate Announced

September 13, 2019 at 2:47 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 24 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2019/09/13/next-democratic-debate-announced/

"SNIP.......

The New York Times and CNN will co-host the next Democratic debate near Columbus, Ohio, on Oct. 15, with the possibility of a second round one night later depending on how many candidates meet the qualifying criteria, the New York Times reports.

........SNIP"

[SCVDem]

1. Too soon

We are making this easy for tRump by supplying so much material to use against us.

[Garrett78]

2. According to another thread, 11 have already qualified. It's absurd to go from...

...having 1 night to needing 2 nights. We're moving in the wrong direction.

Steyer and Yang could do so much more good with their money than use it to hopelessly seek the nomination. Not to mention all of the others who are still running for the sake of running.

[democratisphere]

3. I for one will not be watching. Sick of the character assassinations

by the desperate in an attempt to save their failing campaigns

[Green Line]

4. Agree, I'm done with the BS

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. I'm sick of these non-debate debates already.

There are too many candidates to have any kind of meaningful discussions of the issues and the whole thing turns into a ridiculous goatfuck where they're all looking for a way to get attention from the media by saying something unexpected or combative or just mean, because that's what the media want. We're all waiting for somebody to fuck up because that's more interesting than issues. Nothing that has been said or done at these colosseum-type spectacles have had any influence on my opinion of the candidates and they don't seem to be moving the polls much, either.

[Lucid Dreamer]

6. Here is my suggestion.

All of the primary candidates DROP OUT except for a selected 3.

Those three attend the "debate" which should structured so they can get the party message out. No dropping bombs on each other; no insults; no history dragged from decades ago that can be used by trump against the anointed one.

Our present debate format and behavior by the "contestants" is suicide.

[McCamy Taylor]

7. No, it is way to early to allow the Kremlin to select the candidates we will get to choose from.

Plus, if there are more potential candidates, it will be harder for the opposition to start working on their Big Lies for the general election. IN 2007-2008 there were a bunch of candidate all the way into Iowa. I say let Iowa narrow the field.

[Garrett78]

9. But the high number of candidates will distort the results.

As I keep saying, the average voter isn't going to bother trying to distinguish between 20 (or even 10) people, most of whom they've never heard of. Therefore, the polling (and, eventually, the voting) doesn't really reflect much more than name recognition. That said, I'm fairly confident at least half the current field will drop out before Iowa (they won't have the money to continue).

Steyer and Yang could do so much more good with their money than muddy the waters and hopelessly seek the nomination. And then there's Bennet, Bullock, Gabbard, Ryan, etc. Again, they just muddy the waters and make people not want to pay attention.

We're going from having 1 debate night to needing 2 in October. That's not the way this is supposed to work. We're going backward.

[VarryOn]

8. I'm hoping several will open their eyes and realize...

they aren’t going to win and that delaying the inevitable is detrimental to the ultimate nominee. These ‘no-shots’ consume donations and precious debate minutes while, in desperation, lobbing verbal bombs at top tier candidates that serve only to provide Republican talking points and damaging reputations of our best shots at the presidencies. That’s what happens when 2/3 of the candidates on the stage have nothing to lose by throwing out crazy ass unpopular ideas and pot shots at our best.

I just don’t understand if you’re sitting at 5% or less how you can conceivably believe you’re plausible.

We need the options whittled down to five candidates.