March eBook of the Month: From the Primaries to the Polls

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March eBook of the Month
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From the Primaries to the Polls:
How to Repair America's Broken Presidential Nomination Process
by Thomas Gangale
Greenwood Publishing Group, 2008

America's presidential nominating process is inherently unfair and exclusive, yielding undue weight and privilege to the states that vote in the earliest rounds. More and more states are beating down the door to vote earlier, trying to redress the inequity on a state-by-state basis. In the ensuing free-for-all, the presidential primary schedule has become so front-loaded that the anointed "front-runner" with the biggest war chest in each of the major parties is the de facto nominee.

From the Primaries to the Polls describes the problem and proposes the solution. The American Plan is designed to begin with contests in small-population states, where candidates do not need millions of dollars to compete and a wide field of presidential hopefuls can be competitive in the early going. Keeping more candidates in the race longer to challenge the "front-runners" prevents a rush to judgment and permits more voters across the country to select from a diverse field. As the campaign proceeds, the aggregate value of contested states becomes successively larger, requiring the expenditure of larger amounts of money in order to campaign effectively. A more gradual weeding-out process occurs, allowing a clear winner to emerge only after the full spectrum of candidates has been in play nationally.

Provided through the generous support of Greenwood Publishing Group, the March eBook of the Month will be available to the Mount Aloysius College Library community March 1-31. If you have already established a NetLibrary account through Mount Aloysius College Library, visit http://www.netlibrary.org and log in. If you do not have a NetLibrary account, you can create an account from any computer.

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