{"id":25317,"date":"2023-02-26T11:58:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T19:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=25317"},"modified":"2023-02-26T11:58:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T19:58:20","slug":"do-primaries-really-make-presidential-elections-more-democratic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/02\/26\/do-primaries-really-make-presidential-elections-more-democratic\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Primaries Really Make Presidential Elections More Democratic?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Do Primaries Really Make Presidential Elections More Democratic?\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/151880962?h=1d2f3cc567&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/151880962\">Do Primaries Really Make Presidential Elections More Democratic?<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/zocalopublicsquare\">Z\u00f3calo Public Square<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001EeeUww8b9WLrQ0aCLMffSqvMDuS0b84nw-YgDG_UDTpasalyQXjb_vOJDoWLNTA79ayJj7pwvSN62eAPN_lVA1s0bFHNzSVXi1zsAssh3atkWVN99H6JMIofq_u4yyxB6zOWPoMXlJTl1mft4h3ocQ==&amp;c=5BU67z2jLq96rtxsWqBsYFb7Pq_NQXPH19c-kTFzs2mQl3mQG0jRug==&amp;ch=iPD6j1hgUzxVU563EwztzfL5jLsjK5ST03r-iL5gNo37vgJuRnbqFg==\"><\/a><\/td><td>In 1912, former president Teddy Roosevelt came out of retirement to seek the Republican nomination, and demanded that party bosses refrain from picking a candidate and instead hold the very first presidential primary elections. \u201cLet the people rule,\u201d he thundered. What might have Roosevelt thought of today\u2019s primaries?<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do Primaries Really Make Presidential Elections More Democratic? from Z\u00f3calo Public Square on Vimeo. In 1912, former president Teddy Roosevelt came out of retirement to seek the Republican nomination, and demanded that party bosses refrain from picking a candidate and instead hold the very first presidential primary elections. \u201cLet the&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/02\/26\/do-primaries-really-make-presidential-elections-more-democratic\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[169],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25318,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25317\/revisions\/25318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}