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Kasz216 on 08 February 2012
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Mr Khan said:
Kasz216 said:
I dunno, i'd consider the incompetence in Nevada to be... well.... incompetence.

Everyone around here has their heads up their asses.

I mean they can't even run a proper caucus. Allowing absentee balloting, which kinda defeats the entire purpose of a caucus, which is, your forced to listen to peoples ideas and argueing before making your opinion rather then people just voting for name recognition,or the cool name.

So much of it seems so byzantine, like how the Missouri primary is just the lead-in to a caucus that occurs later.

Heck, i'd just start with the fact that the primary schedule is always the same, and i literlly can't find one good reason why.

Or... any reason really.

I could see plenty of ways you might want to do it.

 

1) Voter Percentage.  The higher your state voted for your party in the last presidential election, the sooner your primary.  Rewards loyal states.  Makes sure that states that don't vote for you anyway won't corrupt your candidate.

2) Voter Percentage, Middle, to highest, then lowest.  The candidate that does best in the middle has an advantage since he theroetically ahs the best chance to win.

3) Combination of 1 &2.

4) Lottery System.  First 30 states draw numbers for order, last 20 staes are last.

5) Rotating primary system in blocks of 5.

 

I haven't seen one reason why it's done in the same order as always... outside of... that's the order we do it in.