Does the presidential primary season seem to go on forever?

As promised in a previous post…..there is an answer……..  A National primary!

A national primary is a proposed system for conducting the US presidential primaries and caucuses, in which all of the primaries and caucuses would occur on the same day…….my thought is to get more participation make it a national holiday (just a thought)……

Today the system of staggered primaries means that voters in later primaries may find that the nominee has already been selected before they vote.  (For instance, New York, the third-largest state, voted after the nominees had been selected in both parties in both 2000 and 2004.)   Disproportionate power is given to the earliest primaries, with candidates who lose them being considered non-viable, even if they may have a lot of support in larger states.

Personally, I think that there ought to be 4 separate regional primaries….One for the Northeast, Southern, Midwest and West….this would make all equal and one state would not have an advantage over another in this process…..plus the media would still have their profit and their place in driving the election….

One of the criticisms of such a move is that it would take a butt load of money….but SCOTUS has made that a moot point…..campaigns now have an almost unlimited supply of cash especially from corporations and other special interests…so this objection is just plain silly……

The national primary or the regional primaries would make the whole system more tolerable for us mere mortals and would probably increase the voters in participation…….