These days, American Presidential campaigns are ludicrously long, ludicrously bloated, and ludicrously costly—but the basic principles haven’t changed in decades. To win, you first have to put together a majority (or plurality) of primary voters, and then you have to appeal to the country at large.
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Published on June 20, 2016 16:11