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How The Primary System Has Shaped Our Politics

FiveThirtyEight Politics

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Is This Just a Reversion Back to the Old System?

For about two decades, the parties were able to pretty successfully re-exert control over the nominating process. So was this just a reversion back to the old system pre reforms? This is a really deep counterfactual right what would have happened if that had never occurred. Opening up the primary process helped change the party apparatus itself.

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