Talk:United States presidential nominating convention
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Do other parties in other countries also hold conventions? Should Strike-through textStrike-through textStrike-through textStrike-through textSmall Text#REDIRECT Superscript text
[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)
I am a rather avid follower of presidential politics, yet I have never heard the phrase "front-loading" mentioned in this article. I suggest this phrase either be linked to a wiki article on "front-loading", or be deleted entirely. The phrase appears in the controversy section. Byates5637 (talk) 03:12, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
- I replaced the term with clearer text. If someone updates front loading to reflect the political meaning, we can put the term back. Simon12 (talk) 05:03, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] "Televising controversy" Section
The section about the televising of conventions states that the first telecast was of the 1940 Republican convention. This seems like it must be a typo because television broadcasts didn't begin until about 1948. There's no citation, so I'm not sure whether the author meant to write "radio broadcast" or maybe mistyped the convention year. Michaeltripp (talk) 13:25, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
