While the rise of the primary system during the Progressive Era loosened the grip of the party establishments on the choice of candidates, this system has its own drawbacks, including:
a. attracting too many independent voters, which skews the results to the center.
b. attracting voters to the primaries who are at the ideological extremes of their parties.
c. allowing those who show up to come to a consensus on the candidate.
d. creating long struggles over multiple ballots to choose a candidate.
b. attracting voters to the primaries who are at the ideological extremes of their parties.
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a. spread widely thanks to the invention of social media. b. been concentrated in the hands of several wealthy oligarchs. c. shifted from elected officials to unelected ones. d. primarily been vested in the general populace. e. shifted from unelected officials to elected ones.