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Primaries. In fact, primaries were not important at all. They existed but they were not important. Suppose, for instance, that our three returning president s, roosevelt, dwight d. Eisenhower, and john kennedy, found themselves in the middle of a campaign for a partys nomination. The object today would be the same as it had been in their days, to accumulate a majority of delegates at the partys nominating convention. There, however, the similarities would end. The strategy for winning the nomination today bears little resemblance to the strategy of days gone by because the system is so different. For instance, imagine roosevelts confusion to hear people talking about momentum in february of the year of the convention. In roosevelts day, momentum was a term described that described behavior at the convention itself. Imagine eisenhowers reaction to the news that senator howard baker had given up his job as majority leader of the senate as well as his senate seat, four years before the pr ....