If the GOP were to adopt Jeff Anderson and Jay Cost’s presidential-nomination proposal—which would empower the grassroots, feature a real convention, shorten the process, and reduce the outsized influence of the press corps and donor class—“the Republican Party, and American democracy, would be better for it.”
Slate, September 17, 2015
By embracing innovative, sweeping reforms of the Republican Party’s badly broken presidential-nomination process, Reince Priebus has the chance to become the Bill Walsh of the GOP.
HughHewitt.com, January 13, 2014A redesigned Republican presidential-selection process, which empowers rather than marginalizes rank-and-file GOP voters, would reinvigorate the party and stop it from bleeding members.
National Review, January 10, 2014
It’s time for the Republican Party to institute a presidential-selection process of its own design, rather than continuing to use the one it adopted from the left wing of the Democratic Party.
The 2017 Project, December 20, 2013
A new presidential-nomination system, modeled after the process that ratified the Constitution, would provide huge benefits for the Republican Party and the country.
National Affairs, Summer 2013
Barone discusses Jeff Anderson and Jay Cost’s recent proposal on presidential-selection reform.
Columbus Dispatch, July 19, 2013The presidential-selection process calls out for changes, and the Republican National Committee is starting to consider the merits of various proposals.
The Washington Post, October 2, 2013This summary of Anderson and Cost's proposal for presidential selection reform provides a condensed overview of their essay published in National Affairs.