Miss Dada  🏳️‍⚧️

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

This is especially relevant this year, when we have two candidates who can completely ignore this. The early states give candidates a chance to prove their viability, see a fundraising boost, and move onto a national campaign.

That isn't to say this is the best option, but in the absence of more sweeping changes to the system, simply saying "we should have a national primary day" would result in a race between Bloomberg, Steyer, probably Biden, and maybe Sanders

That's not to say the staggered system couldn't be improved, either. There's really no reason for the delay between the first four states, and it'd be nice to have the first results come from some more demographically representative states like NV and SC

And most of the staggering beyond that is completely pointless. IMO we should have the initial few states on one day, super tuesday, and then the rest of the country on one day, all roughly one month apart with a debate between.