Damn Thermoquads.

I have a clear fuel filter up near the carburetor. It has fuel in it and the level has not changed overnight.
To recap:
For the first start of the day, I can crank and crank it over, pump the gas pedal 100 times but it will not start. I get out and spray a 1 second blast of almost anything down the primary throats and it starts and idles great. I may be wrong but my logic tells me that the carburetor has fuel in it, it is just that the accelerator pump is not working until the engine warms up.
I am used to working on Holley carburetors. If you have half an ounce of gas in it, the accelerator pump still works since it is at the bottom of the bowl. Maybe the ThermoQuad requires a higher fuel level to spill over into the "well" for the accelerator pump? Maybe ?