. ♪ richard: this is richard scammon.ith me here in our studios in washington, stephen hess of the brookings institution. this morning we are going to try and talk with you about the end of the primary season. the beginning of the preconvention caucus and maneuver and discussion and trying to get together various factions of the groups each to produce a candidate for vice president in the fall. backpose, when one looks at the primary season that began in february, closed on june 8 in california. as one looks back. there are two things that stand out. jimmy carter, and the closeness of the republican campaign for

your host is political analyst richard scammon. richard: this is richard scammon in washington.me are professor howard honeyman of howard -- howard university and mr. stephen hess of the brookings institution. we want to discuss the democratic convention. we will do the republican convention at a later time when that meeting has been finished. but perhaps before we do either of the detailed discussions we conventions, we want to spend at least a few minutes talking about the basic purpose of an american national presidential nominating convention. one observer has said these conventions are real ideological struggles told as circuses. we know the main purpose is to nominate a candidate for president. but howard penniman, beyond that, how can we briefly describe the process of an american convention? howard: the national convention is the time of the nominating of the president and vice president. it is also the one time the party has the national existence. it meets there with delegates from every state in the union, elected by various means, this time by the direct primary but

your host is political analyst richard scammon. ♪ richard: this is richard scammon.me here in our studios in washington, stephen hess of the brookings institution. this morning we are going to try and talk with you about the end of the primary season. the beginning of the preconvention caucus and maneuver and discussion and trying to get together various factions to produce a candidate for president and vice president in the fall. i suppose really when one looks back on this primary season that newn back in february in hampshire, closed down in california and ohio and new jersey, as one looks back, there are two things really that stand out. the first is the rise of jimmy carter. the second, the closeness of the republican campaign for the nomination. steve, how would you evaluate this carter phenomenon? here is a man who was governor of a middle size state in the south. pretty well assured the nomination, pretty well assured the nomination really as the first southerner since the civil war. how did he do it? stephen: it is a phenomenon, an incredible performance for

. ♪ richard: this is richard scammon.h me here in our studios in washington, stephen hess of the brookings institution. this morning we are going to try and talk with you about the end of the primary season. the beginning of the preconvention caucus and maneuver and discussion and trying to get together various factions of the groups each to produce a candidate for vice president in the fall. backpose, when one looks at the primary season that began in february, closed on june 8 in california. as one looks back. there are two things that stand out. jimmy carter, and the closeness of the republican campaign for the nomination. steve, how would you evaluate this phenomenon. here's governor of a middle sized state in the south and pretty well a sword of nomination as the first southerner since the civil war. how did he do it? stephen: it is a phenomenon, an incredible performance for who is that unknown nationally, who had only been governor for one term of a little sized southern state. of course you might say one lesson we

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