But... with a minimum of 3% in the polls, are we still looking at 10+ candidates in the debates?
Where you are getting the 3% number from? In 2012 it was 1% for the earliest debates, and 2% later in the season.
I thought there was no set standard for whom to invite but that when polling was used, 1% was the cut-off throughout the whole primary season. A threshold of 2% or higher and your stage might only include: Bush, Walker, Rubio, Cruz, Paul, Christie, Huckabee, Trump, Carson, Perry. The second division- Graham, Fiorina, Santorum, Jindal, Kasich, Snyder, Pataki, Erlich, Gilmore, Bolton- are at more risk to not make the cut.
