How Do You Solve A Problem Like Primaries?
The Dispatch Podcast
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The Second Progressive Era of American Democracy
The first gilded age led to the first progressive era, and some people think we're living in the second gilded age. A proposal on the table that america should adopt a australia style manatory voting. Primaries came into into the system at the end of the nineteenth beginning of the twentieth century because of a sense that the smoke filled rooms was limiting choice.
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