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Selecting a Presidential Nominee Through Primaries

Calvin Trillin

March 10, 2016

Donald Trump with Chris Christie at Trump’s press conference on Super Tuesday, in Palm Beach, Florida.(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Approval of reform was quite emphatic: Let’s let the voters vote. That’s democratic. But now a question that’s distressing looms: Could we, in fact, prefer those smoke-filled rooms?

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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