So how do you prefer the original 25 person field gets narrowed down? Should all 25 be part of the debates from the start until the primaries? All the candidates need to make the next debate is 2% of the vote in 4 of the 16 polls. No mater what you think of the polls, getting 2% of the vote, no matter who is polled, shouldn't be too difficult to achieve, especially if there are 16 polls and they only need to do it in 4 of them.