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The Politics Guys

Ask The Politics Guys: Fixing the Broken Primary System

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.4783 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2016

⏱️ 25 minutes

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This week’s Ask The Politics Guys question comes from Samantha, in Honolulu. “Dear Politics Guys, How can we fix the broken primary system?”Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening, wherever you are. And welcome to the politics guys with your host, Jay Carson and Michael Baranowski.

0:17.3

Welcome to the politics guys. I'm Michael Barronowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.

0:23.5

My co-host this week, as always, is Cleveland Area Attorney and sometime Republican strategist Jay Carson.

0:30.0

Here's our Ask the Politics Guys question for this week, Jay.

0:33.2

Okay.

0:33.7

It comes from Samantha in Honolulu.

0:37.0

Wow.

0:37.3

Yeah.

0:38.0

Dear politics, guys, how can we fix our broken primary system?

0:44.2

Well, that's a, that's a tough one.

0:46.7

And I think there's an assumption built in there that the process is broken.

0:53.0

It may be.

0:54.0

Yeah, it's an assumption a lot of people share, certainly.

0:56.4

Yeah.

0:57.2

And, you know, we talked to, just before we go on it,

0:59.3

but we talked about this in the show on Sunday that a lot of people are hugely unhappy

1:04.5

with the candidates that have emerged from the primary system,

1:07.6

which I think is probably the reason that, you know, this question came out of it.

1:10.9

When you have a system that gives you Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump as your nominees,

1:15.3

you start to wonder, is there something wrong with the system?

1:18.9

Right, right.

1:21.3

And there may well be, as I said before.

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