With last week’s GOP presidential debate, we have virtually come to the end of the pre-primary season–that 12-month process of posturing and policticking between the various candidates leading up to the first contests in January. This cycle’s experience has been a sour one for me, as I have come to the conclusion that our nomination system is broken and in desperate need of reforms.
To encourage discussion on this front, today’s column reworks a presentation I gave to the students at Berry College earlier this month, in a debate sponsored by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. The resolution in question was whether the current system should be scrapped in favor of the old (convention-style) process. I adopted the affirmative position and Sean Trende, of RealClearPolitics, took the negative.
