Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20161026:18:36:00
Mirror up, take a good long look at itself and when we do what do you think we would see? >> i think in the old days the parties would choose the candidates at the convention and they tried to pick somebody they knew could be a consensus leader. once the primaries came in 1912 and teddy roosevelt wanted to beat taft, we had primaries, primaries are the main reason. you can't go back when you're in a democracy, the more people that vote the better, but in the early days i worry people are not paying attention. there's so many people running, they have a thought about it and party leaders have n...