The American presidential election (5)
Is there a country in the world that has a more complicated system than the United States for choosing the leading candidates for its Presidential election? Can’t be.
To start with, there’s the 50 states. Some have caucuses; some have primaries. Some have closed primaries; some have open primaries; and some have systems in between.
You can find a summary of the 2008 schedule here.
It makes for incredibly complicated campaigns and one needs some sophisticated commentators to made sense of it all. The British media is barely touching the surface – but we will all be deeply affected by the result.
The “New York Times” has a good blog.