TWELVE YEARS OF COMPLAINING ABOUT THE WAY WE NOMINATE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES.

TWELVE YEARS OF COMPLAINING ABOUT THE WAY WE NOMINATE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES. My post on January 23, 2007 inveighed against our nomination process for presidential candidates. I said that: “there are almost a dozen other potential candidates in the two parties — senators, congressmen and governors well known in their home states, but strangers to the national electorate — who would be severely handicapped by a massive [early primary.]”.

Here we are again, twelve years later. There are a large number of Democratic candidates for 2020 and no rational way of sorting through them. How do you stage a debate? How can you reduce the importance of name recognition of candidates and of Iowa, New Hampshire and other early primaries?

The best way to do this would involve having a two stage process—say, with up to eight leading candidates qualifying for a second round of primaries or with an open convention. Canada uses a process something like this.

I don’t see it happening.

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