Remember back when they were like 20 Democratic candidates vying for the nomination?

There were a lot of old white guys, but there were a fair number of candidates who weren't.

When they'd all get up on stage together for a debate, the Democratic Party almost looked

like America.

And then there was last night, six candidates on stage debating all of them white, most of

them have got 60 or 70 birthdays under their belts, with just two weeks until the Iowa

Caucus, it is clear that things have changed.

It happened over the course of the past month, Kamala Harris dropped out in December, Julian

Castro dropped out in early January, and then just on Monday, Cory Booker gave up.

Here stopped by Vox's offices here in DC late last week.

His campaign wasn't in great shape at the time, and I asked him what went so wrong.

Well, I think that DNC did not realize that they were making rules that were new.

We've never seen before that ultimately has ended up advancing people who have either

a lot of money, personally, who can hack the system, or people who threw their sort of

personalize well known can get money quickly.

Working against the candidates who have actually become president for our party in the

past, where people that were way behind from most of the campaign, Jimmy Carter, low single

digits, Bill Clinton, low single Barack Obama, going to the Iowa Caucus as national polls,

15, 20 points behind.

And they've actually designed rules that would have kept some of our nominees off.

Remember, one month before the Iowa Caucus, John Kerry, John Edwards, were at 4%, and

2%, 6th and 7th in the polling, then would go on and finish Iowa one and two and be

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