The day before the day of the debate…and it is Indigenous Day……

The 4th Dem debate of the 2020 season has been a cock up……only a very few qualified for the debate….mostly the corporate candidates with a few others….my choice for a candidate, Tulsi Gabbard, made into this debate….but there was so much confusion that the media did nothing to help clarify simply because their choices were in so screw the rest…..

On September 8, a Washington Post/ABC poll was released. An initial report from ABC claimed that Gabbard had not received the 2% necessary for the poll to count as a qualifying poll, but the Gabbard campaign announced that she had indeed received the 2% necessary for the poll to count as a qualifying poll, citing the Washington Post figures directly. To further complicate matters, FiveThirtyEight claimed that it had received confirmation from the DNC that the poll did not count for Gabbard but the Gabbard campaign countered by stating that no official DNC ruling had been stated and that FiveThirtyEight did not name their source from the DNC.  Presently, no official DNC ruling has been made, but it is important to note that previously DNC policy has been passed down orally, and only confirmed later by statements to the press, without any official ruling, as was done with the Bullock controversy above.

The confusion stems from the fact that the poll data was presented with two columns, one of “all” adults, and one of “registered” voters, even though the question was only asked to those who “leaned” toward the Democratic party. Gabbard had 1% in the “all” column and 2% in the “registered” column. An identical DNC approved poll conducted on the 1st of July was also located in the data, but it is unclear which category was used for the qualification for the debates, as no candidate had 2% in one category and 1% in the other, although FiveThirtyEight claims the above DNC source told them the sample for the “debate qualification will be the adult sample”, and Politico used the “registered” column for their data compilation. Gabbard later reached 2% in two other qualifying polls, allowing her to qualify for the fourth debate.

(wikipedia)

After all the confusion Tulsi stated that she might boycott this debate because of the DNC rulings that try to eliminate some candidates in favor of others……

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) says she may boycott the Democratic presidential debate next week, accusing the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and media of “rigging” the primary contest against outsider candidates such as herself.

Gabbard pointed to what she described as “arbitrary” and nontransparent qualification requirements as evidence party leaders “are trying to hijack the entire election process.”

The Hawaii Democrat, who has hit the qualification thresholds for Tuesday’s debate in Ohio, said she’d decide in the coming days whether to participate.

“The 2016 Democratic Primary election was rigged by the DNC and their partners in the corporate media against Bernie Sanders,” Gabbard said in a statement.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/465157-gabbard-says-she-may-boycott-next-weeks-debate

I agree with her that the DNC and the media is trying to decide who the candidates will be for 2020……I have been saying that for most of 2019…..

I do not think that she should boycott.

I understand her reason for saying she would but to what purpose?

Her voice, antiwar voice, is needed on that stage….I hope she does reconsider her thought.

Update–Tulsi reconsidered and will attend the debate tomorrow.

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