So Cory Booker isn't in the debate but Steyer is?

[mahina]

Going hana hou this thing in the right forum. Mahalo.

That’s bananas. Rules, ok, I understand and Tom is a decent if in my view misguided guy.

No black or Hispanic person though we have committed and experienced candidates of color.

You guys probably all knew this was coming but I don’t have as much time for news as I used to have. Have to say this feels distressing to me.

[Tiggeroshii]

1. I feel exactly the same.

Messed. Up.

[mahina]

2. Right?

Especially when I read he is using hisvimpeachment donations to qualify

That’s some bullshit.

[Tiggeroshii]

7. Wtf???

[JoeOtterbein]

3. It's called "the gold" rule.

Those who have gold "rule".

(true but disgraceful in late 2019)

[The Valley Below]

15. Yet we are subject to regular threads about all the "gold" Sen. Sanders campaign has raked in.

And that money somehow isn't viewed as "disgraceful."

Double standards?

[NurseJackie]

4. I know. Weird.

[boomer_wv]

5. Steyer could have been left off

but I don't see an argument for Booker to be on the stage. He's been running for President for a year and he's still unable to be more than a footnote in polling. He doesn't have a path to the nomination in reality and there's no reason for him to remain in this race.

[brooklynite]

6. When would it be "fair"?

At some point he’ll lose. He’s been in as long as everyone else and hasn’t been an appealing candidate.

[caraher]

8. I saw a suggestion that racially biased polling methods help keep Booker and Castro out

I didn't read the story. But it's very hard to find anything in the levels of support Yang and Steyer have received that would place them on a distinctly higher tier than Booker and Castro.

[nsd]

9. Racially biased polling methods?

What do you mean?

[caraher]

10. "Mainstream polls significantly undersample people of color and oversample white people"

Would Booker and Castro be in tonight’s debate if polls counted people of color accurately?

But we’re not seeing that in the polls. Current polling methods don’t accurately sample minority voters. That failure particularly skews our understanding of the Democratic electorate — and limits the candidates who will be on tonight’s debate stage.

The DNC imposes no methodological criteria on external pollsters when it comes to racial demographics or bilingual polling. It depends on individual media companies and pollsters to “get it right.”

That leaves pollsters with two accuracy problems: surveying enough nonwhites and ensuring that sample represents the full array of people of color. They don’t. For instance, none of the qualifying polls has offered the survey in any Asian languages — even though Asian Americans are expected to make up 7 percent of Democratic voters nationally. And with Latinos making up an estimated 17 percent of Democratic voters, all qualifying polls should be available in Spanish.

That’s important. Academic research suggests offering Spanish and Asian languages results in more accurate and representative voter samples. Consider the fact that in 2010, FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver concluded that Nevada polls failed to predict Harry M. Reid’s five-point victory in the Senate race partly because they didn’t offer polling in Spanish and included too few Latinos in their samples.

[BannonsLiver]

14. Where did you see that, Common Dreams?

[caraher]

16. Washington Post

Would Booker and Castro be in tonight's debate if polls counted people of color accurately?

[Jose Garcia]

11. Should we lower the standards for certain ethnic groups?

[caraher]

17. It's worth checking whether the standards are implemented fairly

Dollars are dollars, but polls have few clear standards and may not accurately sample Democratic primary voters.

[Hortensis]

12. Stinks, doesn't it? Booker will learn from his mistakes

and hopefully do better next time. Hopefully there will be no next time for Steyer.

[BannonsLiver]

13. To me it feels like the rules were followed and that's how it broke.

The entire “controversy” is desperately contrived.