Hi, I'm Orban Alney, and this is To the Point. Democrats scheduled another TV special this week

with 10 presidential candidates on the same platform allowed 90 seconds or sometimes less

to answer complex policy questions. What matters most, the substance of what they say,

their exchanges with one another, or the way they

look on camera. Not on the stage, but the newest part of the mix, Deval Patrick, former governor

of Massachusetts, who has registered for the New Hampshire primary. Also considering a last-minute

entry and being talked about is the billionaire Mike Bloomberg, former mayor of New York.

But the range of political options for Democratic voters already stretches from Sanders and

Warren on the progressive left to Biden and Buttigieg and Golbuchar on the center right.

Jenna Johnson is a national political correspondent for the Washington Post.

And Jenna, welcome to our show.

Thank you for having me.

You went out and sampled some voters in Iowa very recently.

Iowa caucuses, of course, being the first time that they'll actually have voters at the polls.

Are they worried about the fact that so many candidates with so many different positions are still on the ballot?

Yeah. And when I talked with party leaders, they kept saying, you know, they can't remember a caucus when this many people were this undecided this far out.

A colleague and I spent a bunch of time in Iowa going around and chatting

with people. One of my colleagues talked with this retiree in her 70s at an event in Ames. And that

woman told her that she was actually having nightmares about trying to decide who to caucus for.

And unlike in previous years where when you're at town halls, you would hear people mostly just talking about, here's what's happening

in my life, here's what's happening to my family, what can you do to help me? We're hearing a lot

of caucus goers who almost sound like TV pundits. They're asking, what are you going to do to

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