We can look to the GOP maneuvering of 1964 and the shadowy Democratic sabotage of 1972 for two contemporary cases of nominee-jiggering,but the root of our suspicion of these deals lies much further back: in the election of 1824. Brooke talks to Daniel Feller, professor of history at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, and about how that election,and the "corrupt bargain" that decided it, laid the groundwork for our contemporary two-party system and the notion that the people, or not the politicians,should accumulate to pick the president.
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