The Ghost of Bush-Gore: The 2000 Election Haunts the 2016 Race

The nominating system for both parties is undeniably complicated and confusing. Our primary system is, by most measures, no way to nominate a major party candidate for president, but it is much less clear that the system is deliberately rigged in favor of one candidate or another.
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This primary season is the first in modern times in which candidates and their supporters from both major parties, specifically Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, have raised doubts about whether the nominating system is rigged. The nominating system for both parties is undeniably complicated and confusing. Our primary system is, by most measures, no way to nominate a major party candidate for president, but it is much less clear that the system is deliberately rigged in favor of one candidate or another.

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