nomination, and a georgia governor named jimmy carter was winning in early democratic primaries. announcer: election 1976, your host is political analyst richard scanlon. richard: with me today, stephen hess of the brookings institution and professor howard pennyman. what we want to discuss is the system by which candidates are nominated in our electoral process. every four years, our political parties hold a national convention, attended by thousands of delegates, many of which are elected, some of whom are chosen by party conventions or caucuses in the states, but increasingly the primary is important in determining who the candidates will be. the primary in the sense of the vote of the people to elected delegates to those two conventions, and secondly in it what we call a beauty contest, the expression of opinion of the individual party supported in the primary election as to whom that voter prefers as the candidate for president and vice president. some of the state
Hello again im peter w. Watching the news live from the sixty minutes of news and comment today. A bomb and gun attack kills eighty five people at a mosque in egypts sinai peninsula. We ask those who are primaries in the past to reconsider that they cannot meet in a political sense or you can is that zimbabwes new president reaches out to the world saying he is ready and willing to reengage after his historic inauguration. Of course in pakistan orders the release of the man accused of planning the two thousand and eight mumbai attacks a move thats outraged india plus. Accusations today of beatings as the Police Forcibly remove refugees from a former australian run prison camp in papua new guinea. Top story at least eighty five people have been killed and dozens more. Have been injured after fights as target a mosque in egypts north sinai now the attack took place during prayers at a mosque in bed local sources say the attackers planted explosives and then opened fire on the worshippers
Forces loyal to the former yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh fought with their hoofy rebel allies near the mosque the salah loyalists have accused the who says of carrying out a coup those are the headlines a full news hour is coming your way after inside story. More demands from the u. S. Aimed at china from the United States off to north koreas latest missile with the government in pyongyang claiming the u. S. Mainland is no bridge will take action and help diffuse the crisis this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program today with me this one was bigger and more powerful and it sets off the alarm bells in capitals around the world especially in washington after successfully testing a new type of Intercontinental Ballistic Missile in north korea says it could hit the u. S. Mainland pyongyangs bold declaration and the boldness of its leader kim jong un has done little to ease fears of a Nuclear Showdown which would inevitably pull in south korea as ever right in the middle
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