
Follow the Loser
The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg
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The Dynamics of Candidate Selection in the Republican Party
This chapter explores the pattern of the Republican party selecting the most electable conservative candidate, the issue of extreme candidates lacking electability, and the importance of winning weakly aligned voters. It also discusses the tradition of nominating the candidate whose turn it is and how George W. Bush disrupted this pattern.
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