Dan Pfeiffer

Because you shouldn't be able to get on a debate stage just because Sergey Brin writes a massive check to your super PAC.

I think it's a mess.

It's a classic collective action problem, John.

Everyone's incentive is to keep things exactly as the way they are up until the exact moment where we nominate two Republicans to run for governor in the most democratic state in the country.

I think we're at 20 polls that all show the same thing.

Because I think that we just, one of the, maybe VoteHub or someone who does a polling average, we've just hit the criteria to actually keep an average going.

And it's bad for Democrats.

Yeah, I mean, it's a great question.

I mean, it is.

The problem here is that California is basically a 60-40 state, and the 60 is being divided up like 12 ways, and the 40 is being divided up two ways.

And the math is very bad for Democrats, if that's the case.

Now, there is a big chunk of undecided, and that undecided is mostly Democratic.

And so what you have to hope is that when that undecided comes home, it comes to...

one of the candidates who has an actual chance of winning, right?

If the undecided allocates evenly amongst all 12 candidates, whatever it is, then we stay in this problem.

It's also, there's, I wrote in the aforementioned message box a month or so ago, like now it's not time to panic.

I don't think it's time to panic yet, but we're getting close to panic time.

And people are going to, like what's going to have to happen here is people are going to have to think

about what's best for the party and the state and not themselves.

It's going to include all these candidates who do not have a shot to win.