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.. There have been quite a few complaints aimed at the DNC for changing the debate rules to eliminate the donor requirement, thereby clearing the way for Michael Bloomberg, in particular, to participate. What virtually all these posts fail to mention is the fact, that, as of this writing, because of insufficient recent polls, and the lack of a single earned delegate, Bloomberg has yet to qualify for any of the debates with the revised rules. (He's currently one poll short of qualifying based on 10% in DNC-approved national polls.)

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for them to get out the approved poll that gets Bloomberg into the "debate" on Wednesday.

Note the DNC added the Las Vegas Review Journal to the approved list of pollsters. It came out on Friday and Bloomberg was either not included in the poll and polled too low for the summary report.

.. There have been quite a few complaints aimed at the DNC for changing the debate rules to eliminate the donor requirement, thereby clearing the way for Michael Bloomberg, in particular, to participate. What virtually all these posts fail to mention is the fact, that, as of this writing, because of insufficient recent polls, and the lack of a single earned delegate, Bloomberg has yet to qualify for any of the debates with the revised rules. (He's currently one poll short of qualifying based on 10% in DNC-approved national polls.)

@Marie I've heard or read a couple of reasons, not sure if all are valid. I've heard or read that polling organizers want something like 50K and DNC and other sponsoring organizations are reluctant to fork over the cash. I've also heard or read that, with more households going away from landlines to cell phones only, that it is more costly and problematic to do robo poll calls to cell phones than if you were polling just landlines. Again, just reporting hearsay, can't speak to the truth of the matter.

Of course, the Machiavellian in me would note that at this point, in 2016, there were just two candidates left in the Dem primary, so the DNC didn't need to use these "approved polls" as gatekeepers for which candidates make the debate stage, like has been the case this cycle. And, of course, the absence of relevant polls at times has served the purpose of preventing certain candidates from making the debate stage -- notably Tulsi Gabbard, who hit 5-6% repeatedly in NH polls leading up to the primary, but was excluded from the pre-NH primary debate because only a couple of those polls were "qualifying," while several pollsters that would be "qualifying" simply stopped polling in the relevant period -- best example being Quinnipiac, which had Tulsi at 6% in a Nov. 10 and guess what, no more NH polls from Quinnipiac after that. Go figure.

was a sparse for NV, SC, and the Super Tuesday states at this point in the primary election cycle?

As of now, there's only one February poll of NV and SC. One also for NC and TX, ST states. Most recent poll in the other states:

CO - 8/14-8/19/2019
OK - 7/17-27/2019
UT - 1/18-1/22/2020
CA - 1/25-1/27/2020
MA - 10/16-10/20/2019
ME - 10/14-10/21/2019
VA - 9/3-9/15/2019

Republicans in SC have been making some noise about ratf**king the Democratic primary. (Doing what Trump asked NH Republicans to do, not knowing that it's not an open primary.)