Geoffrey Cowan penned an op-ed column in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times entitled “How Theodore Roosevelt helped prove that a knock-down, drag-out primary is a good way to choose a candidate.”
“Watching the presidential primary campaign unfold with the use of tawdry comments and language that sometimes seem unworthy of the greatest nation in the world, it may be useful to remember that there was an equally explosive contest featuring Theodore Roosevelt 104 years ago, when the presidential primary process began. There were those in 1912, as there are those today, who worried about the failings of a selection system built on popular democracy. Yet the presidential primary process has served America well in the past, and it almost certainly will serve us well this year too.”
