"If trends continue... Mr. Trump will win or come very close to
winning by the convention in July. If party forces succeed in finagling
him out of the nomination, his supporters will bolt, which will break
the party.
And it's hard to see what kind of special sauce.. would make
them come back in the future. If [he] is given the crown in Cleveland
[at the national convention], party political figures, operatives, loyalists,
journalists and intellectuals... sophisticated suburbanites and... donors
will themselves bolt....And again it's hard to imagine the special sauce
the shared interests, the basic worldview-that would allow them to
reconcile with Trump supporters down the road."
-Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal, March 5, 2016
After reading the scenario, respond to A, B, and C below:
(A) Describe the nomination process referred to in the scenario.
(B) In the context of the above scenario, explain how the process
described in part A can be affected by interactions with the media.
(C) In the context of the scenario, explain what citizens can do to affect
the impact of the interactions between elections and the media.
