Primaries and Caucuses

Civics 101

NHPR

Education, History, Supreme Court, American History, Elections, Democracy, Society & Culture, Government, Civics, Politics, Social Studies

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

It's one of the most democratic aspects of our nation, not to mention extremely recent. In this episode we explore the snarled history of how we select party nominees; from delegates to superdelegates, and from gymnasiums in Iowa to booths in New Hampshire. This episode features political scientists Bruce Stinebrickner (DePauw University) and Alvin Tillery (Northwestern University), NPR's Domenico Montanarro, Iowa Public Radio's Kate Payne, and Lauren Chooljian from NHPR.

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0:00.0	Civics 101 is supported in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
0:04.0	Let me run a little thought experiment by you.
0:06.0	Alright, we're really on by.
0:08.0	Alright, this one comes from Bruce Steinbringer.
0:10.0	I'm Bruce Steinbringer. I'm Professor of Political Science at DePaul University.
0:14.0	He told me to imagine that it's the first game in the World Series.
0:18.0	And there's going to be, let's assume it's going to be the Yankees,
0:22.0	which is often the case with respect to the American League.
0:24.0	Let's assume they're going to be playing the Dodgers.
0:28.0	So it's an old Yankees Dodgers World Series.
0:32.0	Ah, the old Yankees Dodgers World Series.
0:36.0	I don't think the Yankees organization, the New York Yankees,
0:40.0	are going to hold a vote among all the Yankees fans in the country
0:44.0	to decide who's going to be the starting pitcher for the first game.
0:48.0	And they chose Nick. They chose you.
0:52.0	Now to be ludicrous.
0:54.0	And yet that is the analogy of what gets done
0:58.0	in the presidential selection nomination process.
1:02.0	I'm Nick Kepadiche, the worst pitcher in the world.
1:06.0	I'm Hannah McCarthy and I'm slightly better at it.
1:08.0	And today on Civics 101, in our presidential election series,
1:12.0	we're talking about primaries and caucuses,
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