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Delegate dilemmas and duties: although today's complex nominating process for delegates to the party conventions is not what the Founders envisioned, delegates still have a duty to uphold the Constitution.(ELECTIONS)
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As the recently concluded primary season reminded us, America's quadrennial presidential nominating process, from the earliest primaries to the national party conventions, has become little more than a political sporting event of mind-numbing complexity. So Byzantine has America's procedure for nominating presidential candidates become that Barack Obama arguably won his party's presumptive nomination this time around by mastering the intricacies of every state's process for selecting delegates, and then exploiting their strengths (and weaknesses) to his advantage. This in striking contrast to his rival Hillary Clinton who, despite her ...
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