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There should be maybe 4 or 5 regional primaries and a short primary season but the parties and candidates don’t want that. The media doesn’t either. They string it out so long
and as usual some states like Calif. don’t even really get a choice because it’s over by then. The idea is that candidates do a long slog of a campaign all over the country, and as time goes by a few more drop out till finally you have the last two or the last one, and there are still quite a few states left. Allowing unenrolled voters in can drag the chosen candidate to the Left
though admittedly most voters are still nominal Republicans.
(Though more to the left than you’d think, on some issues.)

I come from a state—MA—where the likes of Romney, Brown, etc. are considered “far right Rethuglicans” but enough of their social agenda allows them to be elected, in a state where it seems like 98 per cent of office holders are
far LEFT Democrats. Mass Republican: USA Dem. Mass Dem:
USA Socialist/Communist. For so long I have been hungering for ANY candidate to the right of the Commies. While other
parts of the country paint the likes of Romney and Brown
as “liberal Republicans”, compared to what we normally
get (Kennedy, Kerry, Markey, Deval Patrick, Barney Frank)
they seem conservative. They’re as close as we’re gonna
get. And the Republican candidates often come off to us on the RIght as “well, don’t really like him, but consider the alternative”.

Such as Liz Warren, running against Brown, and
Joe Kennedy III, running against Republican Sean Bielat
for Barney Frank’s old seat. (Maybe Bielat will be half
decent though.) Great, Republican has a chance to win
Barney Frank’s seat when he retires, so what do they
do? They bring out a Kennedy.

As someone said not too long ago here on FR, “What’s in the water up in Massachusetts...besides Mary Jo Kopechne?”