Question

by digby

Is there any reason why the parties choose a nominee through this delegate system at all? Why don't they just count up the votes and give it to the one who won the most?

I realize there was once a time when delegates and conventions were the way the big boys decided the nominee but I don't actually get why, in the modern world, the party doesn't just hold primary elections under the same rules everywhere and then count the votes and declare a winner. Why all these arcane rules that end up making democracy look like some kind of parlor game? I don't think it's good for the country. KISS.


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