This column by CCLP senior fellow Matthew Dowd was originally published on ABC News. The Iowa Caucus results are in. Victors have been declared. And numbers and entrance poll data is being analyzed. And the consultant classes in DC are already telling us the old ways worked, and are propagating myths once again. But what…
Month: February 2016
An excerpt from Geoffrey Cowan’s new book Let the People Rule on The New Republic
Teddy Roosevelt Defends the Presidential Primary: In 1912, the popular third-party candidate stressed “the right of the people to rule” in the first election to truly test the primary system. By Geoffrey Cowan On March 20, 1912, Carnegie Hall was filled to capacity. Only two months earlier, Theodore Roosevelt’s opponent and rival for the Republican presidential…