Trying to make primaries shorter and more select
Ever since Senator George McGovern and his supporters began to downgrade the role of party bosses and officials in the nomination of presidential candidates, Democrats have voiced increasing concern about the primary process. There was the perennial fear that it was too drawn out, with state caucuses and primaries spread over as many as five months. Increasingly too, it seemed chaotic, with many candidates splintering state delegate votes. Now, after two years of study, a 58-member Democratic Party commission, headed by Michigan's state chairman, Morley Winograd, has proposed a set of reforms that...
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