I'm completely in favor of a national primary.

Good luck with that.

any candidate who hadn't already raised the enormous amount of money necessary for an effective national campaign.

This country does many many things that make no sense.

One of my favorites, corporations are people.

This makes no sense to anyone with a functioning brain.

Corporations have the rights of people and the rights of corporations.

It didn't make sense to keep marijuana illegal for decade after decade.

It still doesn't make sense.

This country can really be fucking dumb at times.

It all boils down to greed, corruption, and power.

There is no other explanation for the current state of our government.

1. only billionaires have the funding to campaign in every state at once. There would never be another grass roots movement that gains momentum. We would have nothing but Bloombergs and Steyers going forward, because they’d be the only one who could afford it.

2. By having a quick single day primary, we lose the ability to vet candidates. A candidate could win it all, and then we find out some horrible thing about them and then have no ability for a course correct.

The solution is to rotate the order, so every state gets the chance to be early in the process.

but you need the ability for campaigns to start small and then grow over time.

Without it, we wouldn’t have had a Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, or Barack Obama.

The solution is to rotate the order, so every state gets the chance to be early in the process.

but you need the ability for campaigns to start small and then grow over time.

New Englanders don't react well to centralized governing authorities telling localities how to handle their own business. They have a history of resisting that sort of thing.

why not put an absolute limit on how much money is spent on a campaign even if it is their own, so that billionaires like Bloomberg cant come in after 4 primaries and be a spoiler. Also, a ban on Republicans voting in any primaries. Also, you need to be a member of the Democratic Party for at least 5 years before running to represent the party.

Just a thought

Each candidate is given the same amount of money and that's all they can spend. They campaign all across the country for a year and then we hold a national primary several months before the general election.

The Democratic Party provides all the funds to fight the election.

many wage slaves don't have weekends off

It takes time to spend all that money