Robert Boatright is a Professor of Political Science at Clark University and the Director of Research for the National Institute for Civil Discourse at the University of Arizona. He is the author of several books on primary elections and campaign finance, including "Getting Primaried" (2013) and "Reform and Retrenchment: A Century of Efforts to Fix Primary Elections" (2024). He is the coauthor, with Caroline Tolbert and Nathan Micatka, of "The Problem with Primary Voters" (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2026), from which this article is adapted.