Your right about the primaries, too many small states and way too early.
If we are going to use primaries, then have them all on the same day,
preferably a Saturday (most civilized countries have elections on
weekends). That way they can't suck up to key states (ethonal subsidies
anyone).
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, lightgrw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> cwpvt wrote:
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> > I agree, except for the Electoral College, if we just used the
popular
> > vote, small states and smaller portions of the electorate would have
no
> > say what so ever, they would only campaign in and for NY, CA, TX and
FL,
> > nothing else would much matter, including NJ, not to mention places
like
> > ND or WV.
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> I disagree. I think that if it was popular vote regions would get much
> more play than they do now. Maybe the candidates wouldn't spend much
> time in Jersey (although with our popular, they probably would) but
I'd
> say that the NY/NJ/PA/CT region would be in play much more than it is
> today. This would probably help us get politicians to pay attention to
> issues than matter to this region more than we currently do.
>
> Plus, you've gotta admit that places like Iowa and New Hampshire have
> WAY TOO MUCH POWER for elections right now. I realize that the
> primaries are different from the elections but the entire campaign
> process seems out of bent to me. What's so wrong in only campaigning
> in the ten most populated states? After all, those ten states probably
> have as many people as 20-30 others combined. So why should areas with
> few people have as much say or more than the populated areas?
>
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