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Primary election

Does the GOP Need to Fix its Primary System?

Here’s a question you may not have asked yourself: why does the Republican party hold primaries and caucuses at all? Is there a better system than the long, drawn out process of staggered elections which push and pull the political momentum towards different candidates at different points in the cycle? Wouldn’t it be easier to […]

Electoral Demographics and a History of Presidential Primaries

Top of the Hour: Caucus Day, Morning Headlines

A Closer Look at the Independent Voter

Top of the Hour: New Hampshire Considers December Primary, Morning Headlines

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Florida may hold early primary election

Global Politics

Republican candidates could find their carefully arranged schedules completely flipped tomorrow, if Florida decides to move its primary election to January 31 – a month earlier than party leaders expected.

The World

A Prize for Everyone

Commentator John Carroll says that regardless of the outcomes of the early primaries, every major presidential candidate has distinguished himself in some dubious way.

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California votes to change primary election system

Global Politics

54 percent of California voters passed Proposition 14. For more on what this radical measure could mean for the state’s primary calculus, and for politics on the national stage, we’re joined by Bruce Cain, Professor of Political Science at U.C. Berkeley.

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Primary candidates brace for November election

Global Politics

Last night, voters decided the party candidates in four closely watched states — Arkansas, California, Nevada, and South Carolina — and seven others. But for many candidates, the election battle is only now beginning.

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A look inside the political rallies of 2008

Global Politics

In an election defined by complaints of partisanship, bruising primaries and the longest of campaigns, how do the rallies of the Republicans and Democrats differ days from the election?