Looking at things from Canada, I feel the same way. These primaries, from what I can gather, are roughly the equivalent of the leadership selection process tha

Looking at things from Canada, I feel the same way. These primaries, from what I can gather, are roughly the equivalent of the leadership selection process that happens with the political parties here. There is media coverage of those, but not to the extent that the US has. They're also run by the parties themselves, whereas the voting process seems to be handled by the individual states' election authorities. In Canada, Elections Canada doesn't really get involved in the process that the parties use to select their leader. It just does the general election, by-elections, etc.