Preferred Primary/Caucus System

[defe07]

Nationwide primary and caucus.

First round: Nationwide pricus/caumary, where 25% of the delegates are allocated.

Second round: Statewide pricus/caumary, where 50% of the delegates are allocated.

Third round: Statewide convention, where 25% of delegates are allocated.

[defe07]

OK, I'm modifying my previous post because I elaborated a bit on it, so here it goes!

I propose that the Presidential primaries would be modified. This is how it would look:

- First round: District primaries; divide the primaries into 50 days, with 8 or 9 Congressional Districts up each turn. Conveniently, a regional approach would be best here.

- Second round: Small state primaries; each state would have its own day! I came up with this because those states with 3 electoral votes may not want to have 2 primaries (1 for the district and 1 for the state per se). So, I came up with this idea for these small states to kick off the state primaries!

- Third round: Remaining state primaries; each state would have its own day!

For each Presidential Primary season, there will be a drawing to allocate all the primaries, that way it can be fairer to every state.

[defe07]

Abolish primaries/caucuses.

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!!

[defe07]

Maybe a creative idea would be to use a two-tier system:

- First round, caucuses to decide who should qualify for the primary ballots (leave the limit to candidates reaching at least 10% or the top 3 or some sort of threshold)
- Second round, primary

That would be nice if all states had this system. Allocate delegates in both rounds.

[defe07]

I would actually endorse a playoff-type format, where candidates are paired and, in each state, would face a different candidate.

Say, you had an 8-candidate field. You would have a first round, semifinal and final. With 8 candidates, you can easily have 4 matchups. Then, the winner of each matchup qualifies for the semifinals and then the winner of each matchup there makes it to the final.

I think this would be rather interesting!