You know what I think would be fun? Change the first state to vote every year.

[helderheid]

Perhaps go alphabetically?

[SharonRB]

1. Markos is on with Sam Seder right now

talking about various options for a new primary procedure.

[helderheid]

6. Cool!!

[BOSSHOG]

2. Excellent idea

Or, have four regional primaries. North, South, East and West which would rotate who goes first every four years.

[atreides1]

3. Every 4 years

That's when the presidential campaign takes place.

[Flarney]

4. It's a start...

...but I'm not sure I'll be truly impressed until we have some sort of instant run-off voting...

[Cleita]

5. How about one day nationwide for primaries? n/t

[RL3AO]

7. Heres my idea.

Iowa goes first, then New Hampshire, and then the other 48 states. The entire process would take place in a 2 week period in April or May.

[Double T]

8. The smartest thing that could be done would be to have ALL states...........

vote in their primaries on the same day in January or February of the election year. Over and done with instead of this l-o-n-g protracted process currently in place.

[Bucky]

11. That will guarantee a winner for the campaign with the wealthiest donors

No more retail politics, just all TV all the time. I prefer a system that allows for some surprises. I like a system that forces all the candidates to face to face with lots of people, not face to camera after a year of shmoozing up investment bankers.

But that's just me.

[n2doc]

21. I agree with you

We need a process that allows for discovery of the candidates. If all people vote at once, the one with the most $$$ will win as they will be the one to be able to run the most ads and have the biggest ground forces in all 50 states.

my suggestion:

every week from mid January on have a primary with 3-4 states. Alternate between 4 smaller than average and 3 larger than average states, and randomize the order each election so each state gets a cut at being "first". Unfortunately this would probably take a Constitutional Amendment to enforce....

[Hippo_Tron]

24. If money weren't a factor I'd be totally in favor of this

IMO we should impose spending limits within our own party.

[Old Codger]

9. FAIRLY

The only relly fair way to do it is to have a national primary, that would be the only way we would all have a say in the candidates....as it is a very small representation of the population decides for the rest of us. Living in Oregon makes my vote inconsequntial.

[Fed_Up_Grammy]

10. I'd rather have all primaries be the same day----about 6-8 months

before the presidential election.

It has now become utter madness.

[lpbk2713]

12. Or ...

Let the states with the highest percentages of voter turnouts in the previous election go first, or last if they choose to.

Perhaps this would provide some sort of an incentive against voter apathy.

[AllegroRondo]

17. I like that!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

13. Change it every year but don't tell the candidates. It'll be like a road rally game show.

The candidates will get clues to help them solve the puzzle of which state to campaign in and get there first. It'll be like the Great Race with money.

[helderheid]

15. YES! I love it!

We could vote one off at each state! :rofl: :yourock:

[Milo_Bloom]

14. I'd like to see things rotate a bit.

There is no one state holding power.

on day 1 3 states would go... small state, medium state, large state (it rotates every 4 years and is based on population)
5 days later 3 more states go and so on until all states are done. No "super tuesday".

Retail politicers can make their case by winning small states early on, making others take a second look at them. Those will large war chests might play for the big states, but miss out as people pay attention to why did candidate A win in the big state, but not in the small state, etc..

[monmouth]

16. At the very least, Florida in the winter....eom

[taught_me_patience]

18. There is an election every 4 years

and 50 states. Therefore, those living in Wyoming will have to wait 200 years before they can be first!

[helderheid]

20. As it is now, they'll never be first so... hey, I'm in Utah! :)

[ThomWV]

19. Start with the smallest states and move to the larges, 5 at a time, once ever 3 days

Start with the smallest and move to the largest so that greatest number of states get to actually participate in the process. Do five states at a time, one every 3 days, states choice to caucus or vote. Takes one month and you don't know on the 9th day who the eventual winner will be. A whole lot more people get to participate.

[LeftyMom]

29. Another plan where small states have disproportionate power and California only counts for $

That won't fly.

[LWolf]

22. I don't care who goes first,

as long as no votes are counted and no caucus results are released until the final primary has closed.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

23. Yeah, Iowa and NH wouldn't like that.

This shit brings in a lot of cash.

[Bright Eyes]

25. This is my first election, so excuse my ignorance....

By why can't all the states have their primaries simultaneously? Seems fair enough for me....

[kimmerspixelated]

26. I love the way you're always

using that bean o yours!!!!! :thumbsup:

[HeraldSquare212]

27. Small states should go first

Otherwise the large states just overwhelm their influence. I support the electoral college for the same reason. But I do agree that maybe it should rotate, so that we don't end up with candidates supporting something that is good for one state and bad for all the rest (cough --- ethanol --- cough).

[Feron]

28. Or choose by a lotto..

Get one of those machines that they use for Powerball and put balls in with the names of states.

And with the next cycle the state that one last time is taken out of consideration.

[TheUniverse]

30. Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California...

Bad idea, we'd have to wait 20 years for a blue state to go first.

[helderheid]

31. what if we went backwards? Or random?

[blues90]

32. They should have started in NOLA

This is where people really got screwed and this is where the focus should have been . Then the real ideals of the candidates would have come out .