HBO comedian takes aim at the broken primary election system for choosing two unloved leaders

On Sunday night’s episode of Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver ripped into both the Democratic and Republican parties for their presidential primary process that seems to go out of its way to make things much more complicated than they need to be. style=”display:inline-block;width:336px;height:280px” data-ad-client=”ca-pub-5626295912827181″ data-ad-slot=”4313623813″> As Oliver said, it’s a nearly indefensible process that amounts…

Most Americans concede that we don’t totally understand how the presidential primary process works—the primaries, the caucuses, the delegates and superdelegates. On the latest episode of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver makes it clear that the system is far more broken than most of us realize. As Oliver points out, the process wasn’t always this convoluted.…