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Personally I want a single primary day nationwide.
When there are so many candidates, that would mean that someone could win the nomination with only around 25% of the vote( which means that 75% do not support the winner). Not sure that would be so great for conservatives.

Well you are correct that it would not be great for conservatives, however after this latest electoral cycle of primary foolishness, I actually have a solution that not only would bring balance and common sense back into the GOP primaries, it will never be adopted because it is above all things, infinitely FAIR:

Adopt a lottery selection process to determine the order of the presidential primaries. Each election cycle, all the states names go into a hat, and the order in which they are drawn will determine 'who goes first' as the primary process begins on 3 January of that election year.

Every 4 years, a new lottery is drawn with new results every time, a November/Thanksgiving date would be a good point to pull the names from the hat.

Iowa and New Hampshire can take their chances with the rest of their fellow states, no more favorites, no more divas, no more of the clamoring about how 'special' this caucus or this primary is, and ONLY Republicans registering within 30 days of the primaries will be allowed to participate.

Well, it was a neat brainstorm anyhow.

LOL. Especially the part about registered Republicans would be better to pick a Pubbie candidate. We don’t have to do anything other than ask for a ballot in the primary, show our driver’s license, and sign our name next to our address.

Sometimes I get a Dem ballot when I need to for some reason.

I’d have the national GOP auction the primaries off to the highest state bidder (ie: whichever state GOP offered the most money for the honor).

And then hold the money until after the convention, where then the winning candidate would then get it as their starting campaign fund for President.