Most Americans support a single national primary day, and tend to think that the current nomination doesn’t produce the best candidates

This year, many – including candidates like Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders – have expressed dismay and even anger at the rules for presidential nominee selection that their respective parties operate under.  Americans mostly agree: in the latest Economist/YouGov Poll, Democrats and Republicans alike would get rid of multiple primary days, and Democrats would ask the unpledged superdelegates – a concept that has been part of Democratic Party rules for more than 30 years – to follow voters’ leads.

So it may not be a surprise that voters this year – Republican and Democrat are dubious that the current system has generally produced the best candidates.  But that feeling has been around a while.  Eight years ago, at about the same point in the campaign, Americans also doubted the process did a good job at selecting nominees.

Democrats and Republicans felt similarly in 2008, in a polls also conduced while the primary process was in progress.  However, opinion may soften at least a little after the nominees are known: in a July, 2000 CBS News poll, after the nominees were known, the public was split evenly on this question.

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