The deadline approaches for the next Dem debate in Houston….the DNC has done its part to try and decide who the voter gets to hear from in these debates….by setting ever increasingly hard goals to meet to qualify.

Personally, I think these debates are a massive waste of time and that it should be up to the voter to decide who they want to hear from not a corporate backed group of oligarchs like the DNC.

That said the field for the next round is coming into focus……

The next Democratic debates are shaping up to have fewer candidates than the first pair, which had 20 apiece. On Thursday, entrepreneur Andrew Yang became the ninth candidate to qualify by reaching 2% in a new Monmouth University poll, reports Politico. The other eight already in the mix: Joe Biden, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Beto O’Rourke, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren. The Monmouth poll of expected Iowa caucus-goers had Biden on top with 28%, followed by Warren (19%), Harris (11%), Sanders (9%), and Buttigieg (8%). To qualify for the next round of debates in September and October, candidates must hit 2% in four polls and have 130,000 unique donors, per the New York Times.

Other candidates in striking distance include Julian Castro, who needs just one more 2% finish in a poll; Kirsten Gillibrand, who needs 30,000 more donors and three more qualifying poll finishes; and Tulsi Gabbard, who also needs three more qualifying polls but has hit the 130,000-donor mark. Late entrant Tom Steyer hit 3% in the new poll and needs just one more qualifying finish, and his deep pockets could generate ads that will bring him to the donor mark, notes the Times. (Yang is proposing that Americans receive a $1,000 monthly Universal Base Income.)

I have introduced my readers here on IST to Andrew Yang….https://lobotero.com/2019/04/10/yang2020/

It appears his proposal of giving every American a $1000 a month seems to be catch hold and giving him a following…..maybe American are looking for those hand-outs, those “freebies” after all.

This whole scheme is aimed at limiting the number of candidates plus it is skewed toward the more “centrists” candidates that the Media and DNC want to be in the running.

The more “liberal” ideas are marginalized in favor of a business as usual for the Dems…a continuation of the status quo.

So much for the American democratic tradition.

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