{"id":9583,"date":"2020-03-08T17:03:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T22:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=9583"},"modified":"2020-04-15T17:08:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T22:08:30","slug":"crowded-democratic-primary-ballot-leads-to-binary-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/08\/crowded-democratic-primary-ballot-leads-to-binary-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"News-Press NOW: Crowded Democratic primary ballot leads to binary choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/newspressnow.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/7\/49\/749946f8-5fcb-11ea-890a-77313f7e162f\/5e6281cced243.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C393\" alt=\"bernie sanders and joe biden\" width=\"1200\" height=\"393\" \/>By Ken Newton, News-Press NOW, March 8, 2020<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>Dr. Edwin Taylor, chair of the Department of Economics, Political Science and Sociology at Missouri Western State University, said the primary system works as a party function of selecting nominees, but the eventual governance, laced with partisanship, has been corroded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the thing that worries me about gerrymandering and the toxic nature of our politics and the parties at war with one another, that we can have no compromise,\u201d he said. \u201cIf a Democrat works with a Republican, you\u2019re a blood traitor.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>He added, \u201cThat\u2019s not how the system was designed to work. James Madison would be freaking out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspressnow.com\/news\/local_news\/crowded-democratic-primary-ballot-leads-to-binary-choice\/article_53313874-5f1a-11ea-9b1b-ebbed1858e82.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">at newspressnow.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ken Newton, News-Press NOW, March 8, 2020 &#8230; Dr. Edwin Taylor, chair of the Department of Economics, Political Science and Sociology at Missouri Western State University, said the primary system works as a party function of selecting nominees, but the eventual governance, laced with partisanship, has been corroded. \u201cThat\u2019s the thing that worries me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,970],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9586,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9583\/revisions\/9586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}