A convention system for nominating candidates would make
it easier for parties to get their policies enacted because it would give them more
power over the people who ran for office on their party
ticket.
In our current system of primary elections, the
party is fairly irrelevant. Anyone can run as a Republican, for example, simply by
appealing to the people who vote in the Republican primaries. A person who gets elected
this way owes nothing to the party and does not need to obey the party
leaders.
If a convention system were in place, party
activists would determine who got to run for office. In this system, a politician who
didn't follow the party line would simply not be allowed to run in the next election.
This sort of control would allow the parties to force legislators to vote the "right"
way. This would make it easier for a party to get its agenda enacted into
law.
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