You may recall that one of the big stories out of the first GOP debate (once you’d waded through all of the Trump news from the main stage) was the general approbation received by Carly Fiorina for her performance in the kids table show. In the first full sets of polling after the big event the former HP CEO went from rattling around near the 1% mark to several samples in a row where she scored between 5 and 9 percent. (Her current RCP average is above 6%) That led many of us – including yours truly – to assume that she’d be moving up to the prime time event next month when CNN gets their turn to host.

Unfortunately, as our friend Andrew Malcolm points out today, because of the math that CNN is using, Fiorina may still miss the cut.

Read the article “How CNN May Keep Carly Fiorina Out of the Next Debate Anyway” on hotair.com.