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CK_John

(10,005 posts) Fri Jun 26, 2015, 01:08 AM Jun 2015

IMO, the GOP is out to wreck the primary system and go back to the convention model.

How;
BY flooding the number of candidates seeking the nomination, which will disrupt the debates. Making it impractical to schedule time on TV and limit individual response.

Also at the local precinct just printing the ballot will be a problem and the ability for scanners and time to select candidates, will generate high error rates and long lines of voters.

Why;
It is cheaper and easer for the 1% to control and present the message in the convention infomercial format.

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IMO, the GOP is out to wreck the primary system and go back to the convention model. (Original Post) CK_John Jun 2015 OP

Aren't primaries part of the convention system? You vote in each state - send delegates to the jwirr Jun 2015 #1

Not only that, but the Party pays for the primary elections....... thelordofhell Jun 2015 #2

After the 1968 (convention primary) where the states party apparatus was all CK_John Jun 2015 #4

A bunch of them quaker bill Jun 2015 #3

I never thought of that. KamaAina Jun 2015 #5

jwirr

(39,215 posts)

1. Aren't primaries part of the convention system? You vote in each state - send delegates to the

Reply to CK_John (Original post)

Fri Jun 26, 2015, 01:47 AM

Jun 2015

State convention and then to the national convention where the final decision is made.

thelordofhell

(4,569 posts)

2. Not only that, but the Party pays for the primary elections.......

Reply to jwirr (Reply #1)

Fri Jun 26, 2015, 05:27 AM

Jun 2015

CK_John

(10,005 posts)

4. After the 1968 (convention primary) where the states party apparatus was all

Reply to jwirr (Reply #1)

Fri Jun 26, 2015, 12:21 PM

Jun 2015

about selecting delelagates bound to a candidate for the first convention vote. The selection process was ward boss appointments, country chair selling delegate, and unions appointing blocks of delegates, it was who you knew and what can you do for me system.

The system was reformed in the '70s. to the secret ballot and the average voter having a direct vote in picking the party candidate and the convention became a platform writing session and a free week of TV.

IMO.

quaker bill

(8,224 posts)

3. A bunch of them

Reply to CK_John (Original post)

Fri Jun 26, 2015, 06:06 AM

Jun 2015

will run out of money early. The donor base will rapidly abandon 15th to 20th place finishers.

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)

5. I never thought of that.

Reply to CK_John (Original post)

Fri Jun 26, 2015, 12:31 PM

Jun 2015

A brokered convention is a distinct possibility at this point.

By the way, there's a handy-dandy new GD: Primaries forum for posts like these..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1251

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