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Them and let's focus them for a second. the reason i want to do this now is because we did this once before and we got more positive feedback on it from you guys than anything else that we've done on this tv show this entire hour the entire year. it was after the one that was hosted on msnbc and telemundo, the one we did in miami. the night after that debate in miami, basically, on this show we did a whole show that was the democratic candidates put their best foot forward because the reason these debates are such a huge deal at this point in the race, and the reason it is such a fantastically...

Winning and everybody else who isn't winning. more than ever before in the kind of media landscape that we're in right now, what a candidate needs to move ahead, to expand his or her campaign, to raise money, to make you see them even if you have not been willing to see them before, more than anything, what candidates need are good moments. capturable, rerepublicable, tweetable moments that they can build on and we have seen this already from every single one of these candidates. we think of these debates in terms of winners and losers, but being on the debate stage means you win at this point...

I mean, i don't think the democratic party could have anticipated with even a field this large that the inclusion rules that they set for their first two debates would result in 20 democratic candidates making it on to the nature of those debates. 20, but that is just how it worked out. once that remarkable result was clear, though, for those first two debate, the democratic party took steps to make sure the third debate would be a tougher ticket. you would have to up your fund-raising base to 130,000 donors and in addition you would need to hit 2% in national polls or early state poll, at lea...

The race entirely when those candidates confront the realization that they're not going to make it on to the next debate stage and so that looming september debate, that looming third debate has started a sort of shedding season where candidates are now starting to take themselves out of the running, and you know, the parties will always have to have some way to determine who makes it on to the debate stages and who doesn't, otherwise you would have a debate stage with a ton of people and also rans and prank candidates. there always has to be some kriet criteria. there will always be some cont...