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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Fixing the Primaries

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, Politics, History

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Attempts to make the primaries work better over time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Kind of has a nice ring to it.

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And if Woodrow Wilson had his way 97 years ago,

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America would add primary day to the list of unpaid holidays.

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In 1913, Wilson advocated a single presidential primary,

0:56.0

held across the nation, everywhere in the U.S. on one day.

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All 48 states at that time would vote in the same day.

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It was a popular issue.

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Primers were seen as a good reform to clear the ballot of the choices of the cigar smoking party bosses

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so vilified in the press and by the progressive movement at the time.

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President Wilson choosing progressive issues where he could to bolster his image.

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Saw this as a win-win win.

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In one swoop, he could fire up progressives who were critical to the nation's politics at this time.

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