Reforming the Primary/Caucus System

[Thomas D]

This is not what it will be. But it's what it should be. Iowa is on a Monday. Everything else follows a Tuesday/Saturday pattern.

March 5-Iowa
March-13-New Hempshire
March 17-South Carolina
March 20-Idaho, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming
March 24- Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont
March 27- Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Wisconsin
March 31- Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee
April 3- Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma
April 7- Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, Washington D.C., West Virginia
April 10- Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington
April 14- Florida, Georgia
April 17- New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania
April 21- Illinois, Michigan, Ohio
April 24- California, Texas 

I posted this on the 2012 board. I guess this would be considered a regional system. Except I save the big states for last.

[Vepres]

I like the Ohio plan, personally.

[Dallasfan65]

Other: Preserve Status Quo.

[Californian Tony]

National primary. Less interesting but fairer.

[NE Assembyman electoraljew2]

National primary. More interesting but fairer.

[RIP Robert H Bork]

Other: Preserve Status Quo.

[Rockefeller]

I don't see why everyone thinks that National Primary Plan is a good idea.  In order for a candidate to have a chance at winning a national primary he or she would have to have a lot of money and a good deal of name recognition.  If in 2008 for example we had a NP system, and that primary was held on the same day as the Iowa Caucus, both Giuliani and Clinton would have emerged as the winner of their party's nomination.  The National Primary system favors established candidated with a lot of money (AKA "political superstars")