How would you restructure your party's primary?

[Adam Griffin]

If you could re-do your party's primary, how would you restructure it?

First of all, the modern-day argument that "superdelegates exist so that party activists and party leaders don't have to compete against one another" is stupid. So, I'll keep the same number of overall delegates and simply make them all pledged. I'd also keep the same numbers overall as what exist today.

All states will use the same formula: delegates allocated at-large proportionally based on statewide performance. No states will apportion delegates based on "county-level equivalents" or any of that stupid nonsense. All states will adopt a primary system or have half of their delegates disqualified.

The groupings of states to go first, second, third, etc will rotate with each presidential cycle: no state(s) will be given the privilege of being the first to cast ballots in any two consecutive elections.

The country will be broken down into four groups: Northeast, Southeast, Midwest and West. Each region will have at least one state present in each set of contests (with the exception of the 4 vote-rich contests, in which one region will dump 500+ delegates each week for four weeks). There will also in some way be a "fifth region", which consists of all the Democrats Abroad and all of the territories; it will dump all of its votes in one set of contests (Week 3).

Each region will dump an approximately identical number of delegates relative to the other regions in each set of contests.

The primary calendar will last 12 weeks:

Week 01: 466 delegates ..........
Week 02: 000 delegates
Week 03: 633 delegates .............
Week 04: 000 delegates
Week 05: 226 delegates .....
Week 06: 166 delegates ...
Week 07: 546 delegates ...........
Week 08: 501 delegates ...........
Week 09: 556 delegates ............
Week 10: 530 delegates ...........
Week 11: 473 delegates ..........
Week 12: 663 delegates ..............