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How The Primary System Has Shaped Our Politics

FiveThirtyEight Politics

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The Party Decides

Hans Noel and his colleagues developed the idea by looking back at endorsement data from the 80s and 90s. The main argument in the party decides as much of this coordination happened informally. Party leaders had a control of enough resources that if they wanted someone to win, they would be able to help that person across the finish line.

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