Single Day Primary vs Current System

[Shameless Lefty Hack]

Nope, I prefer the long slog.  It does provide opportunities for the initially unknown to build support and it also for the overrated to stumble.  It's an endurance test.

Seriously. If you only want to have machine candidates with tons of money, go for a one and done.

I personally would favor a one-and-done system. That said, the primary should probably in April. Plenty of time for retail campaigning, especially when you have people announcing in March the year before.

Retail campaigning is useless in states of above 5 mil, lets say. Especially if you have to cover 50 at once.

Underdogs would never, ever, EVER have the money necessary to mount a simultaneous 50 state campaign.

Frankly, I think every single state should go one at a time. No super tuesdays. no clusters. One. At. A. Time.

[Shameless Lefty Hack]

The long slog is one reason why we have such abyssmal participation, you do realize. People get fed up of it being a constant focus of the news cycle and inevitably just stop caring as much as they would otherwise. Just look at Canada.

Looking at Canada I see a substantial difference in the lack of primaries to select the party nominees. That alone makes for a much shorter campaign. However, I don't think the US public wants a return to nomination by party elites - just look at the debate over Dem superdelegates.

This.

I don't realize that at all, Buckeye. In fact I quite disagree.

Also, we didn't seem to have abysmal participation in 08 on the Dems side, and participation has held fairly steady in the backfield this cycle. 

Frankly, without Super Tuesday and March 15, I think participation would have been enhanced (at least on Sanders' side).

[Shameless Lefty Hack]

People also don't like Congress and taxes, but they're better and more representative than the alternative.