POLS 125 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Road to the White House 2020: Hubert Humphrey
5 May 2020
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Road to the white house 2020 chapter 4, wayne. Thus they established a commission to study procedures for electing convention delegates and propose ways of improving it. The commission proposed delegate selection should be a fair reflection of the democratic electorates sentiment and less closely tied to the wishes of state party leaders: rules were approved to: Make it easier for individuals to run as delegates. Limit the size of districts from which they could be chosen. Require the number of delegates elected be proportional to the popular vote candidates received. They also tried to prevent independence from participating in the selection over the. Group quarters were established so that all states represented the particular groups that had presence in the state"s population. Caucuses were party regulars selected the delegates were redesigned to encourage rank and file involvement: the rules changes, once approved by the democratic national committee, achieve some of these initial objectives.
