Nominating Candidates

 For Wednesday, Hershey, ch. 11.  

A student and her impact on nomination politics!

Types of primaries

The blanket primary and California Democratic Party v. Jones. Writing for the majority, Justice Scalia said:

 In the 1860 presidential election, if opponents of the fledgling Republican Party had been able to cause its nomination of a pro-slavery candidate in place of Abraham Lincoln, the coalition of intraparty factions forming behind him likely would have disintegrated, endangering the party's survival and thwarting its effort to fill the vacuum left by the dissolution of the Whigs. 

Primary runoffs

Primary "meddling"  

In C:alifornia

In "nonpartisan" elections

Fusion: five states let candidates get the nomination of more than one political party: Connecticut, Mississippi, New York, Oregon, and Vermont.

In Timmons v. Twin Cities Area New Party, SCOTUS upheld anti-fusion laws.

Election law and procedure at the state level

Presidential nominations

The old system 

1968 Convention

McGovern-Fraser.  See Hershey 228230.

Daley excluded in 1972 

Party regulars did not have a deep commitment to the old system (Rosenfeld 143).

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