Reply #43: Long nominating season is absurd [View All]

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Most countries take a few months, pick the nominees, then a few weeks later there's the GE. That makes so much sense. We waste so much time and money with the current process, plus there are so many twisted arcane rules it's ridiculous. I disagree with Nelson quite often (he's my Senator too) but I think he's on to something with this. I'd been thinking the same thing for some time. It'd be so much more expedient and efficient to have the primaries on a regional basis, one per month, be done with this in 6 months and all votes would count!! Oh, you could even rotate the timing so first year it's region 1,2,3,4,5,6 then 6,5,4,3,2,1 etc. so that all regions have an opportunity to go first at some point. What could be more fair and clear than that?