California's GOP race could turn into a fight to the death
POSTED: 4:04 p.m. EST, February 26, 2007
By Jeff Greenfield
CNN Senior Analyst
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SAN DIEGO, California (CNN) -- Here's a question for you political junkies: What do Republicans do that Democrats haven't done for years? Answer: In a lot of states, including right here in California, they still run their primaries like steel-cage wrestling matches: winner take all.
Back in 1972, Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern won the California primary and with it all of the state's delegates. At the convention that year, the anti-McGovern forces tried to change that, and impose a kind of proportional distribution. McGovern won that floor fight -- and with it, the nomination. But the Democrats decided to stop "winner-take-all" primaries for the future.
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