the candidates are supposed to accept when it fox announces who is allowed to debate for the republican nomination and who is not. we keep trying to guess what fox might do. it is our who s allowed to compete cable news derive random number generator when we plug in the polls which fox may or may not use, it looks to me like there are eight places on the debate stage that are fairly safe right now. that means the candidates who can be pretty well assured they can get a spot in the first republican debate include donald trump, jeb bush, scott walker, marco rubio, ben carson, rand paul, mike huckabee and ted cruz. those eight seats look pretty safe. depending on how fox decides. that leaves the whole rest of the field fighting it out for the last two places on stage. and until today, this ridiculous fox news ten candidate cut-off had meant there were eight