Hey there listeners, Galen here.

I hope everyone is still enjoying the holiday season.

Last week we re-aired the first episode of our audio documentary series, The Primaries

Project.

It's a series that originally aired at the beginning of 2020, looking at how the process

of nominating presidential candidates came to be, what its consequences are, and how

we might do it differently.

This week we're airing the second episode in that series.

So if you didn't hear the first one, go check that out, but here's the second episode.

Good afternoon from Convention Hall, wherein just about 26 hours the Democrats will start

the process of choosing a man to run this fall against President Nixon.

In 1972, Democratic presidential contenders competed for the party's nomination under a

brand new set of rules, which opened up the process to many more rank and file voters.

George McGovern is tantalizingly close, but still short of his goal.

There's a major last minute, basically, anybody but McGovern movement to try and stop this

guy.

My any beaches full of rumors of facts, deals, switches, pledges, the hotels are jammed with delegates,

and it looks as though this may be one of the most complicated and possibly the most interesting

political stories of the century.

It was a very, very difficult convention.

And 72 convention was a big mess.

In the end, South Dakota Senator George McGovern, who four years prior had helped to write the

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