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Our Presidential Primary System Is An Accident

FiveThirtyEight Politics

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The Democratic Convention in Chicago, Illinois

There were at least a thousand delegates who believed that the Democratic Party had to repudiate the war in Vietnam. But they were outnumbered by those who were loyal to President Johnson and his successor, Hubert Humphrey. There's incredible images of reporters being pummeled and pushed around within the convention. Dan Rather famously punched in the stomach.

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