CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings January 7, 2014
To combat frontloading, the Republican Party offered bonus delegates to states. They said it killed a contest later on in april or may or early june, we will give you more delegates. That was supposed to be an incentive to the state to hold the lid contest, have more delegates and make the contest worth more to the candidates. We see the 2000 republican nomination was frontloaded. It was three weeks earlier than in 1996 calendar began and is also very frontloaded compared to democratic calendar. The Democratic Party was more successful in 2000 at Holding States back in thing you cannot hold a ...