Consequently, by March 7 front-running candidates in both parties will probably have garnered enough votes to ensure nomination at their summer conventions. Springtime will be devoid of politics, though the vast majority of the electorate will not yet be thinking about the candidates. In fact, there will be only two candidates to think about, and they will probably be on vacation. Former Senator William Brock, once chairman of the Republican National Committee, now heads the Republicans' Advisory Commission on the Presidential Nominating Process. Well, they are right.
Professional politicians are still in charge.
They always will be. They are the people who devote the most time to politics. Yet they preside over party organizations that are increasingly feeble. The breakdown of political parties is one of the problems with American politics and that breakdown is largely a consequence of such reforms as the primary system. I doubt it.