What would be your criteria for including candidates to the GOP debates?

[Ebsy]

2% average in the last 3 national polls OR meeting a certain fundraising target (not sure how high)

So now you can buy your way into the GOP debates? Talk about Democracy for sale.

[Ebsy]

Collecting a minimum number of signatures might be a good "alternate" method of qualifying.

And perhaps each debate could have one "wild card" spot on the stage where one of the candidates who otherwise didn't meet the qualifications is randomly selected to participate.

In my experience, signature collection involved paying unemployed bums to go trick people into signing your petition. If I was the GOP, I would skip it.

[Ebsy]

Fox just announced debate selection criteria for the Fox News/Facebook GOP debate on August 6th:

-Candidate must place in the top ten in the average of the five most recent national polls leading up to the debate.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fox-news-to-limit-the-field-for-first-gop-presidential-debate/2015/05/20/7d4e0386-ff2e-11e4-805c-c3f407e5a9e9_story.html

Can we start a fake polling company to release a national poll with some very interesting numbers?

You mean other than Gravis?