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WE don't need primaries, the PARTIES need primaries. It ensures that their partisan supporters (those that vote for a particular party regardless of candidates or circumstances) don't get confused and split their votes.
If the republican and democratic votes were split among numerous (7 or 8) candidates, other parties would have a shot at capturing the presidency.
Then again, we'd be a fractious society if we were elected presidents who won with an 8% plurality of the popular vote.
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