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Our Presidential Primary System Is An Accident

FiveThirtyEight Politics

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The New 3430 Podcast - Pink Heart

The Connecticut Democratic Party was only offering the McCarthyites nine of the 44 delegates to the national convention, fewer than a quarter. Jeffrey Callan and his fellow activists reached out to prominent McCarthy supporters around the country. They set up a commission and wrote a report arguing that delegates should be selected in proportion to their popular support. And then they get this together and then they head into the National Convention ready to change the rules.

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