Let's Have A Rotating System Of Regional Primaries

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.