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There’s something terrible about the primary system and it’s not obvious how to fix it. It is ostensibly more representative than the system which came before i
by JackFr 6y ago
There’s something terrible about the primary system and it’s not obvious how to fix it. It is ostensibly more representative than the system which came before it, but honestly it seems in the past 20 years to have delivered extraordinarily low quality candidates for both parties more often than not. It’s not clear what the solution is though.
- derwiki 6y agoWhat was better about primary candidates pre-2000?
- mc32 6y agoCounterintuitively primaries are more democratic now compared to before when backroom dealing often had more sway. Maybe what's happening now is that early on in primaries enthusiastic voters vote for fresh kids, then as things progress more seasoned voters vote for more established candidates but by then most good established candidates have dropped off and we’re left with the second bests and hangers on. Kind of a paradox of choice in the political arena.