Needed reform of the nominating procedures has been thwarted by the individual vested interests of the DNC members in maintaining the maze of primaries and caucuses.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Party machinery is not a fortuitous development, but is the direct result of the requirements of practical politics. The necessity of nominating candidates for offices leads inevitably to the development of caucuses and conventions.
I think the trend to move towards caucuses and conventions, whether to nominate senators, governors or presidential nominees, I think the move towards caucuses and conventions is a very bad one, and that our party should reward those states that spend the time and money to have primaries.
The main reason we've been the party out of power so long is we haven't had a good nominating process.
I have made it my practice to not get involved in primaries because picking the Republican candidate is the voters' job.
Congressional dysfunction is the logical result of closed primaries, too many gerrymandered one-party seats, and low-turnout elections.
One of the favorite tricks of the Democrats is to try to get the Republicans to pass over their strongest candidate and nominate instead a candidate who will be easy to beat.
Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot before there was a final nominee.
To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.
A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.
There was a Republican majority of the Senate, and it tempered the nature of the nominations being made.
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