Reforming the presidential primary system
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With long lines at caucus sites and superdelegates up for grabs, many are asking whether our nation's primary system is broken.
Does the timeline of primaries inherently disenfranchise voters? Does the hodgepodge nature of the system increase or decrease the accuracy of the outcome? Is there value in adopting a California-style "blanket primary" nationwide?
MPR News host Kerri Miller talked with Elaine Kamarck, senior fellow at the Brookings Institute and author of "Primary Politics: How Presidential Candidates Have Shaped the Modern Nominating System", and Minnesota Rep. Pat Garofalo, R-Farmington, about the problems plaguing our primary election system.
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