“If I can make it there, I can make it anywhere.” So go the lyrics in the Kander/Ebb song New York, New York, most famously sung by Frank Sinatra. Sinatra, who grew up in Hoboken, New Jersey, just across the Hudson, made it in New York and everywhere as well.

Not making it, however, are those of the two dozen Democratic presidential candidates from metropolitan New York. As my Washington Examiner colleague Byron York points out, many of the candidates who will appear in this week’s CNN debates in Detroit will not qualify for further debates under the Democratic National Committee’s rules.