The current system of presidential primaries is—at best—a chaotic, herky-jerky cavalcade of ever-changing narratives signifying little. Actually, it's just plain stupid. A few thousand white farmers in Iowa and a little larger crew of Massachusetts renegades in New Hampshire get to have a disproportionate impact on the early race. Then, a sweep into the South makes things even murkier. Here's a solution: a rotating system of four regional primaries—arrayed across four months—that allows candidates to focus on an
entire block of the nation with each election. Not just one quirky state—but a
region. Every four years, the "lead region" would change: The
Northeast one cycle, the
South the next, then the
Midwest and then the
West. Every sixteen years, you get to go first—
not every time. Of course, this is way too rational to ever happen. However, that shouldn't stop us from
advocating for it.
