Cedric de Leon is director of the Labor Center and associate professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of The Origins of Right to Work and Party and Society and coeditor of Building Blocs: How Parties Organize Society.
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American voters have long been familiar with the phenomenon of the presidential frontrunner. In 2008, it was Hillary Clinton. In 1844, it was Martin Van Buren. And in neither election did the prominent Democrat win the party's nomination. Insurgent candid... SEE MORE