If you had your way, how would the primaries look in 2016?

[limpyhobbler]

2. OK let's do this. Ranked choice voting.

Whole country votes on the same day. Using paper ballots. Rank your choices in the order of your preference. This might be a sample ballot for me.

1 - Harkin
2 - Brown
3 - Clinton
4 - Kerrey
5 - Wilder
6 - Tsongas

To find the winner tally up each candidate's total rankings. Candidate with the lowest total wins. Or, ya know, rank them high to low instead, and then the candidate with the highest total wins.

What we have now is so unfair because only the people in a few early primary/caucus states have any say over the nominee. Or they narrow it down to a couple choices. If you live in a state that votes later in the primary season, you never had a chance to vote for Kucinich, or Dean, or Harkin, or others, unless you wanted to throw away your vote. It's so unfair.

Ranked choice let's you vote for someone with less apparent support without having to fear you are throwing away your vote, because the second and third choices also get counted and added to the total.