Politics in America “…parties used to drive media attention by signaling to reporters which candidates to take seriously” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 November 2016 Money turned out to be much less important to winning primaries than anyone thought...
Politics in America “…before 1968, primaries hardly mattered; since 1968, the Conventions have hardly mattered” Author Drew Kaplan Date 28 October 2016 The protests at the Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1968 resulted in a change...
Politics in America ” The energy of this campaign has been generated on the margins, by two kinds of Americans: younger, better-educated, more urban ones on the Democratic side; older, more working-class, whiter ones on the Republican side.” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 February 2016 Sanders’s persistently surprising popularity shows that the Democratic establishment grasped the deep alienation of...