Dan Pfeiffer

Get those printed for some people.

The mistake here is the criteria included not just polling position, but also money.

So that led them to include Matt Mahan, the low polling, but mayor of San Jose, who also has a lot of money because people like Sergey Brin and a lot of tech people are funding his campaign.

And so once you put... I think you could have made a credible argument that you were going to stop at Tom Steyer, Eric Swalwell, Katie Porter.

They have been...

three, four, and five in the polls and bunched up together for a very long time with a decent-sized gap between them and everyone else.

But once you included Mahan in there, it seemed like a very... I understand why people would be upset about that.

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...