Like any good Samurai film adapted as an American Western the west has only Mexicans as POC and so shall our imagination wander as we imagine 9 contenders and John Kasich as the World Cup host team all with their fingers on the 3am button. And in the case of the Fox News audience, that's too many fingers to count because some are thumbs.
With the major contenders for the GOP nomination now numbering 17, Fox News will only allow the top 10 candidates into the first GOP debate on Thursday. To determine the participants, Fox averaged together five national polls from Fox, Bloomberg, CBS, Monmouth and Quinnipiac.
And that methodology has had political scientists up in arms. The Marist Institute for Public Opinion suspended polling this week because it was worried polls were being used to make too fine of distinctions between candidates.