Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Time For A National Primary

The USA has so many undemocratic, non-democratic, and anti-democratic institutions and traditions in our society--electoral college, Senate, caucus primaries--including the current presidential primary system.  Iowa and New Hampshire and South Carolina don't represent the majority of the American people, but giving those states an enormous influence does a great job of disenfranchising vast numbers of Americans, including those in most big cities and other less-conservative areas.  That's not an oversight.  Iowa and New Hampshire are two of the whitest and boringest awful places in America, and South Carolina is...

It's way past time to institute a national primary day weekend, probably two weekends before July 4th, where every state votes at the same time, sunup Saturday to sundown Sunday, with all results reported at the same time.  That way the primary campaign is a national priority and every Republican and Democratic voter's vote counts.  The national conventions can be scheduled for the third and fourth full weeks in July with the election on the first full weekend in November, maintaining the November election and January inauguration schedule but exploding the amount of democracy in our presidential selection process. 

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