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How The Primary System Has Shaped Our Politics

FiveThirtyEight Politics

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Nominating a Presidential Candidate?

Every candidate from 1980 to 2000 who had a clear endorsement lead heading into Iowa went on to win his party's nomination. Al Gore won every nominating contest in the country and Bush won 44 of them. The strategy and upper reaches of the Republican party was simple until recently: Demand and get unity behind George W. Bush, says Julian Zelizer.

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