the republicans had running in 2016. i mean, with that under card plan it was not only embarrassing to the candidates involved but difficult to to o produce and had to keep tweaking candidates to try to keep certain candidates in the field who they didn't want off the stage entirely but otherwise might have dropped out, i mean, it was a process not perceived to be fair and didn't do anybody favors. well, this year the democratic party is facing a similar logistic l problem because there are ten democratic candidates that declared running and certainly some are bigger but all of them deserve a shot. by the time everyone is done declaring their interest in the race, the party could top the 17 mayjor candidates that tried to cram in in 2016 to no good effect. well, now, as of tonight, the democratic party has announced how they are going to try to handle their huge field of candidates without making some of mistakes the republicans did