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"The 2008 California Primary"

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Two scheduling ideas:

1. Rotate the primary schedule every 4 yrs. States could be grouped into regions, and different regions get a crack at being first every four years. January could be New England, February the west coast, etc.

2. Have a lottery every 4 years, where order of primary is randomly selected.

Problems: Would the early primaries every agree to such a system? If not, does the federal government have the jurisdiction to order any type of scheduling reform?
I have no idea.

2/27/07, 8:56 AM

Anonymous joshrandall said...

Uhm,can we have the election right now?

2/27/07, 10:58 AM

Blogger Steve Sailer said...

Wake me in 2009 ...

2/27/07, 3:47 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

It looks like Ah-nold is a big Rudy fan.

~ Risto

2/28/07, 2:11 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Back in 1984 the NY Times, in typical high dudgeon, took the GOP to task because its national convention then did not reflect the "one man, one vote" principle, pointing out that Utah had far more representation per capita than New York. The implication, of course (which actually was questionable even then) was that the convention was far more conservative than and not representative of the party at large.

Of course, the Times never stopped to consider that the correct principle would be "one REPUBLICAN, one vote", and in that regard the system is more representative than they would admit.

Nevertheless, they do have a point insofar as the basic allocation of delegates is still three per congressional district and six at large per state--mirroring the Electoral College. Problem with this, as Steve points out, is that a GOP-free district such as Maxine Waters' has the same representation as one in south Orange County.

This should be fixed, but is not likely to happen any time soon.

2/28/07, 5:23 PM

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