From the article: "In order to be eligible for the debates, candidates must cross one of two thresholds: earning 1 percent in three polls approved by the DNC, or receiving donations from 65,000 people, with 200 in 20 different states." Odd, that the party which is always complaining about the rich soaking everybody else, has made the ability to get money a criteria for their presidential debate.
@GrouchoTex @roamer_1 @Cyber Liberty@QueenCatofAragonIn each state, the Republican Party and the Democrat party have rules to decide who gets to go to the State Convention of their party.
A number of years ago, I was the Republican Party Secretary of our county party (for ten years). The State Republican Party had this method of determining who went to the state convention. On voting day, each Voting Precinct had a meeting after the polls closed, to select, by voting, the certain number of delegates they wanted to send to the County Convention. When the County Convention met, they selected, by voting, the delegates to go to the State Convention.
One year, I wondered what rules the State Democrat Party had for selecting their delegates to their State Convention. I when to their website to find out. Now, Groucho, stay with me here:
No Precinct Conventions to select delegates to county convention. No County Convention to select delegates to state convention. If one wanted to go to their state convention, the person filled out a form which was on the website to print.
It was a form on which to write or check (don't remember except I think I still have that on my computer under Politics), what their
sexual orientation was - gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgender, cross dresser, and any other ones they use.
On the form they gave the reason they needed the sexual orientation -
THEY WANTED THE CONVENTION TO HAVE, AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, THE SAME NUMBER FROM EACH SEXUAL ORIENTATION SO ALL TYPES COULD BE REPRESENTED EQUALLY.I thought about their form with the sex question(s). I was the one who collected the forms filled out by our Republican delegates to go to our state contention. I thought if our delegates had to fill out a question(s) about their sex organs, they would have thrown the form in my face and put my beaten body on a bus to no where. END OF STORY.