About moving the big primaries up early:

[hedgehog]

I can remember sitting up late and trying to count the votes as the roll call proceeded though the states.

[xultar]

1. Did Kerry have a big war chest?

[Ediacara]

2. I can't vote, both of these options are equally terrible

The frontloading of the primaries is the worst idea ever (as far as presidential primaries go...).

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Why not a national primary?

After all, the candidates are running to be president of the United States, not Nebraska, Alabama, or New York.

And, it would have the blessed effect of cutting down on the campaign time and having the candidates making asses of themselves posing for photo ops with the waitresses, farmers, truck drivers, mechanics, that provide a backdrop for their "plain folks" schtick.


“Now, the man on the stand he wants my vote,
He's a-runnin' for office on the ballot note.
He's out there preachin' in front of the steeple,
Tellin' me he loves all kinds-a people.
(He's eatin' bagels
He's eatin' pizza
He's eatin' chitlins
He's eatin' bullshit!)”

Bob Dylan

[bigwillq]

5. I like that idea.

A national primary in June.

Debate until then and then have the primary.

[INdemo]

4. Its a big mistake to frontload the primaries and

by doing so it will not give us the best choice for nominee..I think the primaries should be set up so that those states holding their primaries in the months of April,May and June would truly have a voice. So by front loading these primaries they are doing the opposite of what should be done...

[TahitiNut]

6. The best government money can buy.

:eyes: Echo chamber ... the media reports (corporate PR) and the echoes are seen on DU.