Thinking ahead: a question...
Posted by R. Neal
Apropos of the previous post, and not to stray too far off into the land of political wonkery, but I think we should eliminate state presidential primaries and let the parties nominate their candidate at their respective conventions. Or, at least have all the state primaries on the same day. What do you think?
Apropos of the previous post, and not to stray too far off into the land of political wonkery, but I think we should eliminate state presidential primaries and let the parties nominate their candidate at their respective conventions. Or, at least have all the state primaries on the same day. What do you think?
4 Comments:
I concur. The primaries incorporate partisan politics as a function of government. Essentially, the .gov endorses a party system. I think that's a no-no.
-SayUncle
Good idea. I would like a single primary where you could vote for anyone running, Democrat, Republican, etc. Then a run-off of the top vote getters without regard to their political party. You could potentially have more than one candidate from the same party. If parties want to have party exclusive elections (primaries as they are in most states), let them pay for it, not the taxpayers some of whom wouldn't be allowed to vote in that party exclusive primary.
until the US is no longer suffering under a two-party exclusive-access lockout, then we need primaries, if for nothing more than allowing the people more opportunity to weigh in on the roster of candidates. if you allow the Convention (regardless of which one) to pick, you will be almost guaranteed of getting a partisan hack.
having all primaries on the same day would be confusing at first, but a good transitional step. however, the best possible election reform package would probably be Instant Runoff Voting in the main election, with easy ballot access for all third parties, and strict campaign finance limitations.
I completely agree, the primary parade across the states add nothing of substance to the presidential selection process. But even more helpful would be to abolish the electoral college.
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