Dr. Lisa Parshall, Professor of Political Science, will speak at the TR Inaugural Site on Tuesday night, sharing her research on the Presidential nominating system.
As Dr. Parshall explained, issues from the 1912 election has echoes still have resonance today:
The 1912 election saw TR declare, ‘I went before the people, and I won. Now the National Committee and a portion of the convention...are trying to cheat me out of the nomination. They can't do it.’ The same sentiment was echoed by Donald Trump in 2016. One man was denied the party's nomination, the other secured it -- and both nomination battles reshaped the Republican Party. Why did Roosevelt champion democratic nomination? Are presidential nominations truly democratic? And, should they be?
Dr. Parshall’s forthcoming book, Reforming the Presidential Nominating Process: Front-Loading's Consequences and the National Primary Solution (Routledge Press), will examine
these questions in detail, while her talk on March 27th will look
specifically at the role of Theodore Roosevelt and the election of 1912
in the fight to democratize the presidential nominating process.
Purchase your ticket at www.trsite.org/events
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