A sensible answer to the primary elections mess
The early states—Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, for example—disproportionately influence the primaries. Win in these states and you look more “winnable” in the November election, so you are more likely in other states to get votes. But this is causing a problem: politicians only campaign in these states, ignoring the others. If the primary race is decided early, most of the country is totally left out. So South Carolina moved its Republican primary up to January 19th, Florida is probably going to go even further back, and before you know it, we will have election campaigns lasting two to three years. Already, many candidates appear to be in perpetual campaign mode; everything is a glory train of publicity for the next run for office, no matter what year it is.
There is a simple, easy solution to this Read on…
