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Are Primary Elections Ruining Democracy?

Open to Debate

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Nominating Leaders Without Primaries

A lot of people believed that somehow primaries were in the Constitution, right? No! Parties aren't even in the Constitution. But what's happened is we've now got two generations of two or three generations who all they've ever known is political primaries. And other democracies function quite well, nominate leaders without primaries. They do very often, and so did in our system prior to the primaries.

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