I'm really surprised how many takes I've been seeing against staggered primaries lately, *especially* this year. It's extremely expensive to run a national campaign, and most of the candidates simply wouldn't be able to compete in a national primary day
The other thing a national primary day would do is increase the likelihood of a contested convention, which would mean superdelegates end up deciding the nominee. It is much better to see the field winnowed by Super Tuesday than this outcome.
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Again, I'm all for fundamentally changing that system, and abolishing any chance of super delegates being involved, doing things like national ranked choice voting, etc. But without these changes *first*, having a national primary day will only make things worse
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Probably the best example of this working well is Obama in 2018. He was a relatively unknown candidate until winning Iowa, and absolutely would not have risen to national prominence if the entire country had voted at once. Clinton would have truly been the "inevitable" candidate
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Full disclosure on candidate related biases influencing this thread, my current preference of candidates is: - Warren - Sanders - Biden - Buttigieg - Whoever has gone the longest without using a transphobic slur
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Also why are folks mad about staggered primaries "giving results when most of the country hasn't spoken" but aren't mad about polls doing essentially the same thing?
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Unless we use ranked choice voting which would solve the contested issue.
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https://twitter.com/sgrif/status/1229556918160543745 … Sure, but we need to make ranked choice voting happen first. Removing staggered primaries by itself will only make things worse
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