How would you improve the US presidential primary system?

Question

Or, do you like the system we expect to be using in 2008?

Thanks!

Answer 1

No candidate may announce before 18 months prior to the general election.
All primary elections for all states must be held on the SAME day - about 7 to 8 months prior to the general election.
No fund raising for a presidential campaign may be pursued prior to the date of announcing candidacy.
No laws shall restrict "political speech" (including all advertising) but anyone making a false deceptive or miss-leading statement may be held liable for all consequences.

Answer 2

End all campaign funds, all of the candidates should line
up in front of the camera at the same time, questions are
to be asked by normal people, not the media nor the press
everyday people like you and I.

If you are not a well known candidate, show up at the questioning line every day so that everyone gets to know
your point of view and where you stand.

This would certainly put big business out of the election
process and would give real people the chance to ask
questions and get answers to what is on top of their list.

Answer 3

one project is surely evident..."medical doctors" of quackapractic wade through from delusions of grandeur. with regards to a affected individual with a shoulder harm. All a chirocracker is going to do, is delay applicable clinical care from a real healthcare specialist. After bleeding the sufferers' pocketbook or coverage for as a lot as accessible, then and in hassle-free words then will that undesirable soul be despatched to an ER. And guess what,an ER well being practitioner will merely might want to x ray the shoulder back, because they received't except some thing a chiropractor says, or their awful x rays. Portal of get acceptable of entry to, known care service, P-L-E-A-S-E....What planet are you quacks from HA HA! Do you quite believe this dribble?

Answer 4

It doesnt matter what we as amaerican people like because no one listens to a damn thing we have to say anymore anyway. The only voices our elected officails hear anymore is that of the special interest groups, lobbyists, and anyone willing to make a campaign donation to get them reelected. The whole damn system stinks, and if George Washginton or Abraham Lincoln were alive today they would slap the faces off or current leaders for what they have done to this country, and where they have taken it I vote everytime I get the chance and sometimes it works and then the person that got elected turns around like the snake in the grass they are and do what they want to do anyway. You want washinton to fix our problems make them deal with them in real life put them on socail security for a while. I'll lay odds they fix it faster than they have ever fixed any other problem they faced. Make them deal with what we are dealing with from one age group to another and make them deal with it for a while and when they are done I bet they fix the problems.

Answer 5

For the electoral system in general, make it a popular vote. It's insane that we're still using electoral votes for presidents...that was the Constitutional Convention's method of ensuring that we didn't make "bad decisions."

OK, I digress, but I had to get that out of my system first. Now, to answer your question, I don't like the system at all. I hate that in order to vote for a Dem Pres (and other parties' Pres, too), that you have to take that party's ballot. If we're a free country, why don't we get a choice of all the candidates we want to vote for? Why do we HAVE to be a specific party?

Answer 6

for ALL elections, I would like to see the supreme court decision regarding campaign finance to be repealed. They decided that money is the same as speech...so you cannot limit it. I think we should have a fund on our tax returns that we can check to donate to a PARTY (like 25 dollars MAX) and then have those funds dividedup equally. Then, we use a public radio station and a public TV station to give FREE and EQUAL air time to each candidate.

Answer 7

We need a new system from scratch, all the politicians do is see who can lie the most and blow the hardest.We need a completely new form of government.

Answer 8

No more party registration balloting...everyone gets same ballot with all primary candidates and you get ONE vote for each office but you get your choice of repub, dem, indie

Answer 9

Just have the candidates nominated at the convention. Local delegates elected by local parties.

Answer 10

Same day, nationwide primary elections.