It's Time to Change the Presidential Nomination Process

GOPUSA - The Loft ^ | 1/8/2008 | Bobby Eberle

[mysterio]

Doubt it. My suspicion is he’s been offered Hillary’s VP slot or a high ranking cabinet position in her administration. Otherwise, I think he would have given the Presidential race a shot.

[dashing doofus]

I think the idea of rotating states, randomly, makes more sense. I think any type of national or super-regional primary would make all the smaller states irrelevant, regardless of whether the results were held until voting was finished. The candidates would just focus on the states with the greatest number of delegates, like they do now for electors in the largest states.

When this primary is over, NH and Iowa will be ignored by the candidates as usual.

[af_vet_rr]

The problem ? The MSM deciding who THEY want us to hear. When they shut out candidates who are organized enough to be on the ballots, they hurt us all.

True...CNN has a lot of ex-Clinton staffers and Faux is run by somebody who worked for Giuliani, and so it's no wonder that they both push those two.

[cinives]

We need to count it as a campaign contribution if the public media (ABC/CBS/NBC/PBS) gives more time to some than others.

[Tolik]

Nailed It!

Long Overdue

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[2nd amendment mama]

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[BlueNgold]

Interesting ... worth some thought.

[GovernmentIsTheProblem]

“Especially when the MSM declares winners long before the process is over.”

before it’s started! Like leaving candidates out of debates.

[mngran2]

I know you weren't defending it. Didn't mean to imply you were.

How many registered voters turn out in California? I bet its pretty dismal.

If so, maybe that's because Iowa, New Hampshire and the media will have already declared the nominees. But even if every man woman and child voted in New Hampshire, California would only need a 4% turnout to have more people cast ballots.

[TChris]

Brief translation: Waaaaahhhh! My guy isn’t going to be nominated!

[Arrowhead1952]

How about all states on the same day or no results given until all of the caucuses and primaries have been held?

Also, no crossing state lines to vote in the caucuses or primaries. Absentee ballots would be OK for those out of their precincts.

[dashing doofus]

Not buying it. If a candidate loses NH and Iowa, and still thinks he/she has a good chance of winning the larger, later primaries, they will stay in.

E.g. Hillary (if she loses here) and Rudy.

[mngran2]

The problem ? The MSM deciding who THEY want us to hear. When they shut out candidates who are organized enough to be on the ballots, they hurt us all.

And how do your propose to solve that? State-run media?

[bassmaner]

First get the 18th repealed and put senator election back the way it was designed.

You mean the 17th. We can all drink to the fact that the 18th (Prohibition) was repealed in 1933.

[Resolute Conservative]

You are right the 8 is next to the 7 and I have big fingers :)

[cinives]

Good question.

My not-well-thought-out proposal might be to give each candidate who qualifies for federal matching funds some ad time on public broadcast media -ABC,CBS,NBC,PBS- so everyone can see who’s running and what they want to do. Kinda like the Comcast newsmakers 6 minute promos.

[DrewsDad]

Thanks for posting this. We need to do everything we can to increase the voice of the grassroots.

Everyone attending their precinct meetings should put this forth as a resolution to be adopted at the local, district, and state levels so that they get a mandate to change it at the national level.

[weegee]

There are also the “crossover” voters who register for the Republican primary to either select the weakest or the farthest “Left” candidate they can.

[nikos1121]

Illinois. I think this year it’s going to be brokered conventions

[ModelBreaker]

By spacing out the process and going from smaller to larger states, more candidates could compete, more states would be involved, and a nominee more representative of the will of the entire Republican electorate around the country would be more likely to emerge.

This would probably be a good thing. But neither party is interested in it.

Both the D's and the R's want to have the appearance of a primary, the result of which is dictated by the money guys. The establishment of both parties is aghast at what is happening this year. HRC and Romney were their designated winners. The proposed scheme would take things even further out of the money-guy's control.