There's so much reporting on the 2020 primary and presidential nominations in general, but

often a lot more noise than real wisdom.

David Carroll, by contrast, is a political scientist, University of Maryland.

He is a scholar on party systems, party nominations, how politicians evolve in response to

nominated contests, how the process evolved over time.

So we really talked to him.

He's a long conversation, but it's about the sort of deep history of how the nominated

system works, how it has changed over time.

And I think if you listen to this, you're going to really understand what's happening

in 2020 in a whole new way.

Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Box Media Podcast Network.

I'm Matthew Glacias.

My guest today is David Carroll.

He's a associate professor of government and political science at the University of Maryland,

also the author of a new book, Red, Green, and Blue, about environmentalism and the sort

of partisan divide, as well as a couple of other books, which is a co-author of a book

about the primary process.

And that is something that I think is on a lot of people's minds these days.

So welcome to the show.

Thanks, Matt.

It's great to be with you today.

Fantastic.

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