Quote:Yeh but some of those predate the mosern primary system itself.

Bingo! Totally agree with jj on this one.


The reason we haven't seen a contested convention in the modern era is because we went away (and rightfully so) from political machines. Back during the political machine's day, you'd have brokered conventions and it wasn't a big deal, because that's how it always was, and there were no primaries where voters voted. So our was much less democratic, because the political elite of each party choose the candidates.


Now, we have the ability to actually see what the voters are deciding, so going back to brokering a convention when the plurality of voters are clearly choosing one candidate would be terrible for a party. Saying otherwise is either wishful thinking.

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