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AUGUST 18, 2020: The last meaningful convention moment was 40 years ago. In 1980, Senator Ted Kennedy was challenging incumbent President Jimmy Carter ([link removed]) for the Democratic nomination. Carter had won enough delegates to secure the nomination, but Kennedy was convinced that—in their hearts—most delegates preferred him. So, his team challenged the convention rules and called for a vote that would free all the delegates to vote their conscience.[1] ([link removed])
Eventually, Carter’s team carried the day and the president was formally nominated. He went on to lose the general election to Ronald Reagan ([link removed]) .[1] ([link removed])
That 1980 convention capped a decade of change in the way we nominate our presidents. We didn’t know it at the time, but the new nomination process would make conventions irrelevant.[1] ([link removed])
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_Scott Rasmussen is an editor-at-large for Ballotpedia, the Encyclopedia of American Politics. He is a senior fellow for the study of self-governance at the King’s College in New York. His most recent book, ** Politics Has Failed: America Will Not ([link removed])
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