On July 30 and July 31, CNN will be hosting a pair of Democratic primary debates in Detroit. For each showdown, there will be 10 candidates on the stage.
On Thursday night, CNN assembled 12 people to decide on which of the two nights the candidates would be appearing.
It was called “The Draw” — a programming block designed, perhaps, as an experiment with this inspiration: How complicated and baroque can we make the process of dividing a pool of candidates into two separate lots? If you’ve used the “poop cruise” or the MH370 coverage or the election-night holograms as punchlines for CNN, you now have a new one.