CSPAN2 BOOK TV February 21, 2016
Primaries. In fact, primaries were not important at all. They existed but they were not important. Suppose, for instance, that our three returning president s, roosevelt, dwight d. Eisenhower, and john kennedy, found themselves in the middle of a campaign for a partys nomination. The object today would be the same as it had been in their days, to accumulate a majority of delegates at the partys nominating convention. There, however, the similarities would end. The strategy for winning the nomination today bears little resemblance to the strategy of days gone by because the system is so differe...
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