At the current pace of things...I think most folks will be easily bored by politics by June of next year. The networks will be scratching their head...over what to show for nightly news when no one cares. The September/October run-up? I don’t think either candidate will find huge crowds at their campaign stops.
I agree...there ought to be a 30-day period...preferably in April, where all 50 states hold primaries, and then the party meetings in July to wrap up the minor mess. Face it...all of these idiots have to run campaigns on cash...and if you start this far ahead...you need twice the amount of cash as you did before...so you will insist on bribes and foreign money to support your efforts. We are only breeding corruption at the highest level by running early campaigns.
BLAME AHNOLD ... AND HILLARY.
This was all about RINO Arnold and other CA politicians wanting Cali to have a bigger voice in the primary and moving it up to February from June, and about Hillary trying to compress the schedule so no other challenger could emerge to stand up to her media-money juggernaut.
THE SOLUTION:
Require that only a certain percentage of delegates can be chosen by a certain time - 10% of delegates be selected in January; at most 30% by February, 60% by March, and the rest afterwards. (ie 10%/20%/30%/40%). Any state that moves up their calendar loses delegates. states later in the calendar get more delegates.
No selection prior to January 15th.