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Remember how California switched to a top-two nomination system in 2012, ostensibly to lessen the role of parties? Well, as detailed here previously, the parties responded to that system by endorsing candidates prior to the primary, conveying to voters who...
One big procedural reform discussed in the RNC party assessment document yesterday is to shift the party convention back from August to July or June, and compress the primaries and caucuses further to make that work. In order to do...
I'm going to look at the GOP presidential nomination process suggested reforms out yesterday, starting with the debates. The RNC wants to chop in half the number of primary-season debates next time around, starting later (not until September 2015) and...
Earlier in the week I asked why liberals don't use Democratic House and Senate primaries the way that conservatives use Republican primaries. Nick Baumann believes it's just about an ideology gap, and refers to Gallup's charts which show that far...
I didn't talk about this last week, and it's no longer particularly relevant to 2012 (what with Mitt Romney having nailed down the nomination and all) but for those of us interested in understanding the GOP presidential nomination process, the...