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1980 was one of the first primaries to openly litigate a question that was settled behind closed doors before 1968; Goldwater & McGovern examples made it urgent. I did a 2-part history on this in 2016: http://baseballcrank.com/archives2/2016/01/politicshistory_16.php … http://baseballcrank.com/archives2/2016/02/politics_are_el.php …https://twitter.com/BrianLehrer/status/1125421829731049474 …
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"If you go through American history, you can find a lot of different people who became president who had to grapple with the electability question.… Ronald Reagan, in fact, if you look back at the emergence of the term electability it comes into play around 1980," says @kkondik.
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