I Would Like Someone Other That Hillary Clinton As Our Nominee... That Makes Me A Hillary Hater ???

[HereSince1628]

82. Really too early to know...typically the announcements fall ~june to ~oct of preceding years

so, on ALL accounts no one yet has any choice. And prognosis for my health don't leave much expectation of participating in anymore general elections.

I agree that the timing of primaries has the potential of making the late primary elections redundant.

I don't and won't run the schedule of the primaries. If I had my druthers I'd change it for people coming after me...

I'd bias the schedule and award the convention site relative to say either percentage voting turnout for the party in the previous general election or with relative improvement in number of voters voting for the party. I wouldn't always give earlier placements to Iowa and New Hampshire even while there are rationalizations possible for that. I'd likely be down grading convention cities that aren't party friendly in their policies and voting patterns. That could make things like a Honolulu or Milwaukee convention possible...

I'd be interested in using the primary season and the general election to create incentives to voting among voters who care about such things as the timing of their primary and to create national awareness of patterns of voter turnout.

I'd try to create 'primary conferences' that voted on 'conference Tuesdays' one each month over 5 months. The first conference to vote would be the conference with the highest turnout state.

I'd try to balance conference membership using some combination of electoral votes taking into account patterns of awarding them, and geo-demographic considerations. My first interest would be trying to keep the candidates honest in the balance of their message and promise making...aka within the timing of the conference campaigning, keeping them from -only- messaging particular issues to particular states, thereby making the overall messages apply to all the voters across the entire conference. Anything that keeps campaigning politicians honest is a good thing for voters.

I have my interests, but I know they aren't shared to the same degree by all party members. And as I won't be voting it's not a matter of single or few issues but, what I see as best possible process that creates a representative mixture of agendas and priorities of actual voters...something that yields not just a majority electoral college vote, but consensus of voters on who best represents their mixed interests.