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The final crack in the traditional convention process came eight years later at the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago. Minnesota Sen. Eugene McCarthy, who won the most primary votes, lost to fellow Minnesota Sen. Hubert Humphrey in the delegate count. Humphrey had not run as an announced candidate in the 17 primaries, and only 38 percent of convention delegates were chosen by voters in primaries. (Republicans picked just 34 percent of delegates in primaries.) Both parties soon initiated reforms to ensure that more voters had a direct role in choosing political nominees. In 1976, Democrats selected 73 percent of convention delegates in primaries, while Republicans chose 68 percent. In 1980, the name “Super Tuesday” was used to describe the final Tuesday of the primary season in June, when a key group of states that included California and New Jersey cast votes. https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/a-brief-history-of-presidential-primaries The selection of Harris is a step backwards in the democratic process.

Before 1972, political conventions were convened to select the candidates. Some people felt that a small group of people choosing a candidate was undemocratic. Thus, after 1972, the primaries became the means of candidate selection. Neither the primaries nor the convention was used to select Harris.

What is the point of the convention? The party elders selected Harris.

Harris’s economic views are horrible. Progressives are like a plague of locusts destroying everything in their path.

If Joe Biden saved the economy, why does Harris want price control?

I'm afraid I have to disagree.

FFS..does anyone have proof of price gouging?

I'll take the answer as "yes".

Weak sauce is what you bring to the table.

Link?

Are you programmed to create idiotic posts over and over again?

This sums up the Harris campaign. But the 2024 campaign is famously more about "vibes" than anything related to governance. The Harris/Walz campaign website still does not have a policy page(though the party did on Sunday release a draft platform). "I have not had a single constituent in El Paso or a single person on the road try to get very specific policy details from me," Harris campaign co-chair Rep. Veronica Escobar (D–Texas) told The New York Times. You're going to have to vote for a Harris administration to see what's in it. https://reason.com/2024/08/19/democrats-unburdened-by-what-they-have-done-to-chicago/?comments=true#comments

There you go again with your lies.

Grocery shopping is expensive these days.

The people in Chicago are boarding up their building in solitary with the Democrats and Harris.

Harris the progressive canidate is being nomined in Chicago which is a progressive city. Look at the state of Chicago, it's a mess.

She is the ultimate fail-up canidate.

Reduce the need for the military? Are you high?

What give away?

You have said this to me in the past, but you seem to know nothing about the topic.

https://www.npr.org/2024/07/29/nx-s1-5048532/harris-prosecutor-trump-election

It will drive up prices for the working man.

How would you measure that?

What do you think of Harris's ecomonic plan?

What missinforaton?