The un-snubbing: Jason Esteves, Derrick Jackson & Olu Brown get my air time

The more I let it marinate in my mind, the less sense it made - and the more irresponsible it was, in my opinion - that WXIA-TV (11 Alive) and its NexStar TV partners throughout the state hosted a televised / live-streamed Democratic gubernatorial debate with only half the field in the race. Their flimsy / flawed criteria is so thanks in large part to flawed and sporadic (at best) polling, and it's not as if they couldn't have commissioned a fresh poll closer to the debate date themselves. What makes it so irresponsible is that a) they could fit three more candidates in the studio and b) they may have left out the candidate with the most momentum, right now. What's worse: there wasn't much new to learn about the three (erm) "leading" candidates that would alter the state of the race for either of them.Well, it made me feel better, anyway, to revisit my conversations with the three snubbed candidates today while peeking in on a few notable moments from last night.