"I don't care who does the electing," New York's William Marcy
"Boss" Tweed once remarked, "just so I can do the nominating."
Since the 1980 election, a number of leading scholars, under the
auspices of Duke University, the Wilson Center, and other in-
stitutions, have been taking a hard look at the U.S. presidential
nominating process. Their conclusion: It is too erratic, too time-
consuming, and too vulnerable to manipulation by minority fac-
tions. Partly...