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Question: What would you prefer ?
#1
The current primary/caucus system with IA, NH first and other states next
 
#2
The current system, but only with primary contests
 
#3
A national primary day (every state votes on the same day)
 
#4
A group primary (5 groups with 10 states each week or every 2 weeks)
 
#5
Something else (please post)
 
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Mr. Morden
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« on: August 31, 2011, 05:29:53 AM »


^^
Agreed.  Primaries have led to the selection of some quite terrible candidates.  It's bad enough at the congressional level.  But at the presidential level, you have some of the most able politicians not willing to put themselves through a two year campaign, appealing to two completely different electorates between the primaries and the general election.

Of course, primaries are more fun from the perspective of a political spectator.  Wink
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Mr. Morden
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« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2011, 04:33:40 AM »


Nationwide free-for-all? Yay, that means we could go back to the times where the parties would pick multiple candidates for the general election!! Smiley

No, that's not necessary.  Just go back to the nominees being decided by party bigwigs a la the pre-1972 system.  Opening the selection of nominees up to the voters via a nationwide patchwork of primary elections is a failed experiment which we should pull the plug on.
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