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Section sizes

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Overview	3,048	37,701
Schedule	22,709	22,709
Participation	11,944	11,944
Debates in 2019	23	118,123
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Summary	9,921	9,921
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Qualification	11,241	11,241
Summary	7,509	7,509
Participation	1,913	1,913
Third debate (September 12, 2019)	43	18,590
Qualification	15,424	15,424
Summary	3,123	3,123
Fourth debate (October 15, 2019)	42	15,984
Qualification	8,522	8,522
Summary	7,420	7,420
Fifth debate (November 20, 2019)	41	14,728
Qualification	11,902	11,902
Summary	2,785	2,785
Sixth debate (December 19, 2019)	41	19,715
Qualification	12,489	12,489
Summary	7,185	7,185
Debates in 2020	23	79,408
Seventh debate (January 14, 2020)	42	12,974
Qualification	9,770	9,770
Summary	3,162	3,162
Eighth debate (February 7, 2020)	41	15,161
Qualification	10,496	10,496
Summary	4,624	4,624
Ninth debate (February 19, 2020)	41	18,942
Qualification	8,963	8,963
Summary	9,938	9,938
Tenth debate (February 25, 2020)	41	17,437
Qualification	7,785	7,785
Summary	9,611	9,611
Eleventh debate (March 15, 2020)	7,646	10,691
Qualification	2,193	2,193
Summary	852	852
Cancelled twelfth debate	4,180	4,180
Incidents and controversies	34	42,899
Climate change debate	4,971	4,971
Steve Bullock's qualification for first debate	2,611	2,611
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Third debate protest	1,102	1,102
Ninth debate protest	443	443
Tenth debate protest	363	363
Tulsi Gabbard disputes with DNC	41	11,415
Pollster selection and poll frequency	3,475	3,475
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Threatened boycotts	1,948	1,948
Eleventh debate qualification	2,865	2,865
Andrew Yang disputes	30	4,110
Microphone complaints in first debate	643	643
Yang qualification for third debate	911	911
Yang disputes with MSNBC	1,864	1,864
Yang qualification for seventh debate	662	662
Sixth debate labor disputes	1,804	1,804
2020 debates rule-change petition	1,662	1,662
Seventh debate moderation controversies	4,408	4,408
Michael Bloomberg's debate inclusion	968	6,010
DNC debate qualification rules change	1,049	1,049
Other candidates' reactions to Bloomberg's inclusion	3,993	3,993
Criticisms about the tenth debate	43	1,780
Alleged influence efforts by Bloomberg	989	989
Moderation	748	748
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Announcement of change from prior format	1,354	1,354
See also	196	196
Notes	54	54
References	411	411
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Castro first debate drawing tier

I don't think that was initially a typo; as far as I can tell, by the time the drawing took place Castro had 3 polls that were all at 2%. At the same time, in trying to do due diligence and find a source on who was in which tier for the first debate draw, the lack of press at the event poses something of a problem. This Politico article and this FiveThirtyEight article (both from June 14) list out eight candidates for the first (2% or above) tier: "Biden, Booker, Buttigieg, Harris, Klobuchar, O’Rourke, Sanders and Warren." This leaves out Castro, who should have already had his third 2% result from this CNN poll, released June 4 (on top of this Fox poll from May and this Monmouth poll of Iowa from April).

In the absence of a source saying who was actually in which tier from the event itself, it's not clear to me if we should rely on the sources indicating Castro would have been in the second tier, or the apparent fact that his polling should have placed him in the first tier. Does anyone have a more authoritative listing of who was in which tier, or a notion of which should actually be used?Gambling8nt (talk) 15:43, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]