2016 Postmortem

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts) Sat May 7, 2016, 11:21 PM May 2016

How about abolishing all primaries and caucuses?

Have the candidates make their cases in debates, town halls, and interviews, over a period of several months, and then nominate the candidate who is strongest against the Republicans based upon opinion polls? That would save a huge amount of money while being effectively the same system that quite a few folks here are advocating.

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How about abolishing all primaries and caucuses? (Original Post) Nye Bevan May 2016 OP

Better yet, let the nominee be selected by an internet poll KingFlorez May 2016 #1

Let's just abolish elections and let Nate Silver choose the president. Cheese Sandwich May 2016 #2

That's how we got FDR Renew Deal May 2016 #3

we already have that in the general election where one can write in ones choice in most areas nt msongs May 2016 #4

Nah, just pick the nominee who has the best trending hashtag Tarc May 2016 #5

A new electoral college ContinentalOp May 2016 #6

KingFlorez

(12,689 posts)

1. Better yet, let the nominee be selected by an internet poll

Reply to Nye Bevan (Original post)

Sat May 7, 2016, 11:22 PM

May 2016

Vote as many times as you like.

Cheese Sandwich

(9,086 posts)

2. Let's just abolish elections and let Nate Silver choose the president.

Reply to Nye Bevan (Original post)

Sat May 7, 2016, 11:24 PM

May 2016

#feelTheMath

Renew Deal

(81,856 posts)

3. That's how we got FDR

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Sat May 7, 2016, 11:25 PM

May 2016

msongs

(67,405 posts)

4. we already have that in the general election where one can write in ones choice in most areas nt

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Sat May 7, 2016, 11:26 PM

May 2016

Tarc

(10,476 posts)

5. Nah, just pick the nominee who has the best trending hashtag

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Sat May 7, 2016, 11:28 PM

May 2016

ContinentalOp

(5,356 posts)

6. A new electoral college

Reply to Tarc (Reply #5)

Sat May 7, 2016, 11:48 PM

May 2016

Facebook gets a certain number of electoral votes and the candidate who gets the most likes wins those. Twitter has electoral votes allocated by hashtag. Instagram divvies theirs up based on number of followers. It would be a Sanders/Kardashian landslide!

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