Challenge: primaries hold on the same day

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Let's assume that instead of prolonged state-by-state contest, where results are often incluenced by the outcome in few small early states like Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, all primaries were held on the same day, pretty much like the GE.

How would such primaries since 1972 look? (mapes would be cool).

[Mr. Smith]

Challenge Accepted

Okay, for 1972, it's just the Democrats since Nixon was popular as ever with the GOP.

With what states data can be found for it:

Hubert Humphrey
George McGovern
Edmund Muskie
George Wallace

[Mr. Smith]

For 1976

Democrats: Becomes a difficult race to call, locked up by region, with ScoopJackson taking the Northeast and Pacific Northwest, George Wallace dominating The South, and Mo Udall taking up the rest. Georgia votes for native son Jimmy Carter, West Virginia does the same for Robert Byrd, California for Jerry Brown, and Frank Church gets a few Western Interior states more than the others, but is effectively a native-son

For the GOP: Gerald Ford does much better as Ronald Reagan is still considered "too conservative", this cred does well in The Deep South, Indiana, and a few Western states though.

[LLR]

1980:

Democratic

Teddy Kennedy's support is weakened a bit, Carter wins more easily

Jimmy Carter
Teddy Kennedy
Unpledged Electors

Republican

Bush does worse, Anderson does worse too

Ronald Reagan
George Bush
John Anderson
Howard Baker

[Mr. Smith]

1984 Democratic Primary

Mondale does better, but Hart still wins the Interior States, and the Deep South goes to Jesse Jackson