[Dr. Sivana]

Has there ever been a time that the Dims didn’t try to rig their own primary?

1980 (Carter vs Ted Kennedy & 1976 Carter, Scoop Jackson, Mo Udall, Frank Church, Jerry Brown et al both seemed pretty straight)

[ScaniaBoy]

I beg to differ, at least concerning the election 1980. According to the Mitrokhin Archives Senator Kennedy tried to elicit aid from the Soviets to wreck President Carter's reelection campaign and get himself nominated.

Jimmy Carter vs. Ted Kennedy: Forget Health Care -- What about the Kremlin?

Four years later that "paragon of the Senate" was up to the same tricks trying to get Andropov to help him to win the nomination and upset President Reagan.

Kennedy and the KGB