There's a local "best restaurant guide" in my area, the readers vote for best of this and that, and Chili's gets all sorts of awards every year. This is not because Chilis is good. This is because Chilis is the only restaurant that many people have in common. It's a meaningless guide.

Christians are losing everywhere but at the ballot box. Time for that to change.
VOTE!

Take the time to look and learn, I went to a Bernie rally and learned more about him than I could ever learn otherwise.

A lot of people are talking about not having another old white guy be the nominee or president, but if that old white guy has the ideals that I relate to then what does it matter?

Even though a lot of these candidates are establishment, just like I think Biden, O' Rourke, Klobuchar, Harris, Booker, Buttigieg, and to a lesser extent even Warren are, they have a right to run. Most of these candidates know they're not going to win the primary, but they want to get on the debate stage to give a non-establishment account of what's going on, including Tulsi Gabbard and Mike Gravel (bet most of you don't know who he is - Pentagon Papers).

At the very least, we deserve to hear them, and they deserve to speak. I already know who is advocating for the status quo, but now the entire country needs to see that too.

The establishment is going to try everything they can to have Biden be the nominee first and foremost. They don't want Bernie, Gabbard, or even Warren getting the nomination. The establishment, including the Democratic Party, would rather have Trump win another term than to have someone who is actually progressive or liberal be the president.

Our primary system is insane -- it lets a few non-representative small states eliminate possibly great candidates before most of us get a chance to vote. I'd far prefer a national primary with a series of run-offs.

I'll just wait till Ohio has their primary

These polls are usually pretty baised at this point and even when they aren't trying they still mess it up. It's still far away in politics, I'm sure most will drop out as they see the writing on the wall. Biden is the establishment choice clearly so the rest are dividing the progressives mainly. I do not believe that listing of Sanders. He clearly has more support than those numbers say. He is the main target of these polls. They are designed to make him look like he isn't as popular as he really is. Almost every poll I've seen is directed to that end. He is who the establishment is worried about. They can easily crush anyone else.

Not one of these sorry asses will return any donor's money once he or she will drop out.

Well when the field coalesces around the final candidates, (maybe after the early praimaries including California), we will find out who we get.
I have some concern about old white men being out front. It just seems like we have been there before.

Is there some sort of financial or "status" benefit in this? Surely they don't all think they have a chance?

There was a write-up... Biden/Harris as "Dream Team".

I'm rooting for Elizabeth Warren. Kamala Harris can be her vice president.

I think we shouldn't decide who's allowed to run off of a single states poll a year and a half away.