Let’s all be honest. The way we have the primaries in this country suck. By the time it got around to my state, I had two choices – McCain and Paul. I didn’t have a chance to support Romney, Huckabee, Thompson, or Hunter, or any of the others. It was all decided a month before I received my chance to choose, and honestly…that’s not right.

 Here is what I propose:

• Primary Season lasts 12 weeks, starting the first week of February and lasting until the end of April, approximately.
• Each week, five states vote, with an extra number for the territories/Puerto Rico in one of the two ‘gap’ weeks in the schedule.
• States vote in Reverse Population Order. 
• Gap weeks occur before each of the two last set of states (the most populous ten), in order to allow more campaigning before the primaries involved.
• Voting will be restricted to registered members of the party only. No independents or crossovers. If you want a voice, you have to commit to it.

So, what would this mean?

First, we would not get situations where those running for office feel compelled to dive out of the race. 

Second, we have time for opponents to research each other, since the news media will only research to destroy a candidate they do not like.

Third, the smaller states feel like they can make a difference, though the big states are still the deciding factor.

Lastly, it shortens primary season by almost a full three months. The first primary happening in the beginning of January, and ending in June is ridiculous.

Under this plan, theoretically you could move the conventions up an entire month, and thus giving us another month to evaluate not only the general election candidates, but their vice presidential selections. 

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