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Which candidates would qualify for either the main stage debate or for this weird innovation we've come up with this year, which is the kids' table debate, the so-called undercard debate. from debate to debate to debate, it's never been clear, oftentimes until the very last second, who gets in and who doesn't. but with all of that. with all of the consternation and criticism and ad hoc suspense of this year's debate process, there is one way in which this republican debate season has been a huge, unqualified success. and that is the size of the audience. more people are watching this time arou...

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This is the awkward thing that happens when you have arbitrarily divided your group of candidates. as awkward and embarrassing it was for lindsey graham whom they forgot to wait for as he was coming from the kids' table debate, it was even sadder for bobby jindal who missed the photograph all together. when all the other candidates were lining up for the big group photograph, i mean, yeah, sure it's bad enough lindsey graham was late and half forgotten. bobby jindal was in the spin room alone after the weirdly separate four-person kids table debate. when that broke up nobody knows what happens...

Fiorina probably does not want people to think about when they think about her time as a business leader. but even with that, carly fiorina today is better off than the boys who are still stuck at the kids' table. i mean, at least first time there was a kids' table debate when fox news did it there were seven people at that table. it looked like a substantial number of candidates. there was a significant number of people to watch. but between the first debate and the second debate, the kids' table went from seven people to six people to five people to four people after jim gilmore fell so low ...

Reduced -- and that's going to happen naturally. there's a winnowing even before the first votes are cast in iowa. as you get fewer republican candidates, there will be more of a coalescing of support and i don't believe it's going to coalesce around donald trump. it's kind of donald trump versus most of the rest of the candidates. >> when do you think the winnowing process will start to happen? >> the winnowing? well, i think it's already happening behind the scenes. you know, if you can't get in the adult debates, your money's going to dry up, and that's happening to a couple of those candid...