• PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    I’m not sure it matters yet. Are the parties even required to have primaries? What keeps them from just choosing at the convention?

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      No.

      The people.

      Both parties used to have a much more closed process that didn’t announce a winner until their convention. The public primaries weren’t anything more than a preference poll. Voters punished them both for it so severely that they changed.