but martin van buren helps andrew jackson to expand the basis of the parties. parties become these mass organizations. by 1832, andrew jackson and martin van buren had decided to adopt an innovation called the national convention, which was a way to bring all the state party leaders to one convention to choose the nominees instead of using this either state legislative resolution or a congressional caucus or king caucus decision. host: at the same time, what was happening in the electorate? who could vote? dr. brown: generally speaking, what was going on was that white males were now enfranchised. they reduced the property requirements that were in existence early in the republic. it was also true that the states had essentially moved to the system of winner take all in most of the electoral vote allocation. it was also true that states were no longer essentially choosing electors by the state legislature, determining who knows electors were, relying on the votes of the people in their states. host: the national conventions, which start in 1830, there were three

again, some of these huge money backers who otherwise -- >> i'm sure martin van buren did the same thing onparchment. >> if you ban all the ads, that will give birth to another social media platform like tiktok the effect of that will be the rise of tiktok >> come after @seema mody. >>> finally and quickly, one more reason to be mad at millenials because they love the idea of retiring early so much, it could be a problem for the fed if millenials, guys, consume less, save more and leave the workforce early, it could mean a big hit to the fed's inflation fighting firepower and spell economic trouble down the road let's hear your hot take on this one, brian. >> another reason to dislike millenials even more they're going to pay for my retirement there's 85 to 88 million of them >> they're going to retire early. >> everyone says that. you know what the demographic boom that's coming in this country? it's going to be incredible. people my age in their late 40s, our little tiny generation, generation x, we're just a wee little one even though we invented we use today, i love millenials i want