Open nominating conventions used to be the norm in American politics. One reason the major parties moved away from them was to avoid chaos. ... In this episode of History As It Happens, ...

Panelists talked about national party conventions, the history of the presidential nominating system, and changes in the way America now selects its presidential candidates. Participants, most of ...

Panagopoulos is the author of [Rewiring Politics: Presidential Nominating Conventions in the Media Age.] This session was the first panel of a conference on the 2008 National Party Conventions at ...

The 2024 Democratic National Convention is expected to look a lot different in a couple of weeks with the party hosting its first open convention in more than 50 years.

There hasn't been a seriously contested convention in decades, and history helps explain why: ... We looked at all 60 Democratic and Republican nominating conventions from 1868 (the first post-Civil ...

Jul. 29—In 1924, Democrats convened in New York for what became history's longest presidential nominating convention. With 103 ballots over 16 days, they selected former congressman and ...

Connecticut’s virtual congressional conventions, a necessity forced by a pandemic that has upended the mechanics of American politics, ended Thursday night with Republicans nominating David X ...

Democratic delegates to next month's presidential nomination convention now have the option of backing Vice President Kamala Harris or other candidates following President Biden's departure from ...

Nominating conventions are traditionally meant to be media bonanzas, and if the GOP decision stands, it will mark the first party nominating convention in modern history to be closed to reporters.

Democratic Party lays out rules to virtually choose presidential nominee to replace Biden. Party officials said they have ruled out an “in-person contested convention,” citing several reasons.