Donald Trump and Our Messy Nominating System
Trump once said that one of the great insights in his life was when he realized that his own instinctual and uninformed opinion could be as powerful as a well-considered one.
.. What Trump hasn’t said is that a key beneficiary of the undemocratic nature of the primary process has been Donald Trump. He has won thirty-eight per cent of the popular vote so far, but, because of winner-take-all allocations and other rules, he has taken home forty-five per cent of the delegates.