2016 Endorsements: How and Why They Matter

William “Boss” Tweed captured the importance of the nominating process when he said that he didn’t care who did the electing, as long as he got to do the nominating. …

Party elites have figured out that they can nudge voters one way or another by coming to a consensus on whom to nominate in the year before the primaries — the so-called invisible-primary stage. CONT.

Lynn Vavreck (UCLA), New York Times

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