Talk:United States presidential nominating convention

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Do other parties in other countries also hold conventions? Should there be a redirect here from political convention? an ignorant American

This is a weird historical review. The rioting in Chicago had little to do with the method of selecting delegates. It had to do with anti-war protesting. I suppose it was tangentially connected in that they were protesting against Humphrey, but there's little direct connection there. The changes were made because the old process was felt to be undemocratic, not because it was disorderly. john k 19:19, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] history: how were the convention delegates selected?

The Anti-Masonic party is said to have invented the national convention in 1831. 13 states sent 126 delegates. The National Republicans did the same three months later.

How were the delegates chosen in 1831? By local party bosses? By the people? With which method?

When have the delegates been chosen by the people for the first time?

Caucus first meant meeting of party representatives. When did it become a meeting of voters?

[edit] A definition of the term "front loading" needed?

It might be helpful to those less-initiated in the political game (like myself) if we were to define the term "front loading" used in the Televising controversy section. There is a "stub" (I think you call it?) for this term, "front loading," but the definition there is mostly in reference to government funding of military projects.

The term "Front loading" is well-described here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_primary (in the "Front-loading and compression" section of the "Criticism" chapter). I'm not sure whether to link there, or to modify the stub, or a little of both.

Just a thought. No time to continue now...

Fagiolonero 01:50, 19 March 2007 (UTC)