Government by Committee: Securing the Presidential Nomination
The process of nominating candidates for the nation's highest office has also changed through the years bringing it closer to the people. Today the emphasis is on amassing enough delegates in the primaries to wrap up the nomination long before the R...
Party Politics: Politician-Centered Politics
Despite partisan support, political parties are relatively weak in the United States. They still recruit candidates, raise money, and develop policy positions, but they do not control these activities as they once did. Candidates can bypass their pa...
Campaign Primaries
Talking about the arduous road to the White House, former Secretary of State James A. Baker suggests a system of regional primaries, "...so that the states don't keep jockeying to be the first...extending the process, making it ever and ever longer."