Early suggestion for the 2020 primary season:

[Ken Burch]

The California, New York, Texas and Florida primaries should be moved in to late March, so the candidates would face multicultural and multiracial audiences and voters early in the process.

It's really pretty absurd that New Hampshire and Iowa, states that are, to be fair, demographically unrepresentative, should have the primacy in the process that they do.

Another approach might be to have them be nominally first, but IMMEDIATELY followed by a big, multiracial state primary(like, within the next week).

There's no reason those two tiny states should still matter as much as they do.

And there's no good reason for the big multiracial states to matter less than the Southern states we are never going to carry again and that whole "Super Tuesday" thing. Putting the South first means embracing the GOP meme that white Southerners are real Americans and that nobody else is. It's silly to give that kind of privilege to a constituency that is lost to us for the rest of freaking eternity no matter how "centrist" and obsessively flag-waving our future nominees are.

[Reter]

1. Who should we run against President Bush/Paul/Cruz/Rubio if we lose?

Hillary, Bernie, and Warren will all be too old.

[daleanime]

2. Should tighten up the whole affair....

do a few of the traditional states first over a month, then smaller states as a group followed by everyone else 2 weeks later.

[Agnosticsherbet]

3. We agree on this, but who in the existing party structure will change the order.

The existing primary system is set up to give the real power to to low populations states and the South.

I know that the primary will be decided before California even votes.

It is one of he reasons I don't support any single candidate.

[LWolf]

4. I like putting California late.

California has enough delegates to make it competitive, and that means that the votes of those of us in smaller late states still mean something, because it's not all over by the time it gets to us.

That said, I agree that it's absurd that NH and Iowa have the primacy in the process.

Frankly, I'd rather see everybody vote on the same day, with results not reported until all polls close...but practical drawbacks have been pointed out to me, and I can't really argue them.