To combat frontloading, the Republican Party offered bonus delegates to states. They said it killed a contest later on in april or may or early june, we will give you more delegates. That was supposed to be an incentive to the state to hold the lid contest, have more delegates and make the contest worth more to the candidates. We see the 2000 republican nomination was frontloaded. It was three weeks earlier than in 1996 calendar began and is also very frontloaded compared to democratic calendar. The Democratic Party was more successful in 2000 at Holding States back in thing you cannot hold a contest in february and the Republican Party was. And so by and large, these reforms are seen as a failure. So that brings us to the Republican Partys second major attempt at reform with accretion of the temporary delegate Selection Committee that was formed in 2008 in order to make reforms for 2012. The creation of this committee is significant not only because its one of the rare instances the R
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