Will Democrats and Republicans return to the full four-day, cocktail-party and networking convention in 2024?
TWO YEARS ago Republicans decided to hold their 2020 convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. That made sense: in recent cycles, parties have tended to hold conventions in swing states they would like to retain. In 2016, for instance, Republicans held their convention in Ohio, which Barack Obama and George W. Bush both won twice, while Democrats held theirs in Pennsylvania.
The first was held in 1831 by the Anti-Masonic Party—formed, as the name suggests, to combat Freemasonry, in the late 1820s. It succeeded in choosing a candidate, William Wirt, who was a longtime United States attorney-general, and also, oddly, a former Mason deeply sympathetic to Freemasonry. In the 1832 election, he carried a single state , while Andrew Jackson, the Democrat, took 16 and the Republican, Henry Clay, six.
Starting in 1912 the parties moved towards even greater citizen participation by introducing primaries. At first they were non-binding—in essence a gauge of public opinion for party insiders to consider when choosing a candidate at the convention. But by the early 1970s they had become determinative.
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