How to squeeze all those Democrats on the debate stage
by Mark Z. Barabak and Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times
Jun 25, 2019
4 minutes
With virtually the entire adult U.S. population seeking the Democratic presidential nomination - or so it seems - the party faces some knotty questions.
Is anyone left to vote for somebody besides him- or herself? Can all those people squeeze onto a single debate stage? How does that Buttigieg guy pronounce his name, anyway?
The debate question is a serious one, even if the number of Democrats running is only a mere two dozen or so.
There are several reasons for the exceedingly large field: Changes to the nominating process - which all but eliminated the gate-keeping role of the major political parties - and the
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