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Our Presidential Primary System Is An Accident
FiveThirtyEight Politics
What We Need in the United States Is Not Division
After RFK's assassination, there was no actual establishment candidate for a couple of weeks. Kennedy and McCarthy didn't have insider support, so they needed to try to win delegates. A group of activists in Connecticut changed the way that we elect presidents. The changes to the Democrats' nominating process trace back to late June 1968.
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