If, however, Senator Clinton continues to find more rationales for why she should be the nominee and does not get behind the nominee as every other candidate who came in second for the nomination in modern times has done, it is not the nominating system that Democrats should blame.
A10 NATIONAL A12-23 Parties Weigh Alterations To Nomination Process Republican and Democratic Party officials are exploring ways to change a presidential nominating system that critics say has become too chaotic, too fast for informed decision-making and even, in some ways, undemocratic.
Next, I included each senator's ideological rating on a one-dimensional liberal-conservative scale, as measured by the DW-Nominate system.
Reads * Keith T. Poole, of the DW-Nominate system, plotted the ideologies of the select committee charged with recommending ways to reduce the federal deficit by at least $1.5 trillion over 10 years.
There is just one problem, critics of the nominating system say.
In an attempt to unite the Party, Humphrey endorsed a commission to reform the nominating system.
WICKENDEN: Elaine, you've written a book about our insane Presidential nominating system.
But such is the flexibility of the nominating system that this may not be true.
The current Democratic nominating system is an amalgam built by layers since 1968, when the party tried to open up its nominating system after the bloody cleavages of the Kennedy-McCarthy-Humphrey battle.
Sixty percent of respondents said the nominating system was too hectic and drawn out and should be reworked.
For the last few weeks he has been working noisily to rebuild the current presidential nominating system.
