No Way to Elect a President
By David Broder | Thursday, February 22, 2007 | The Washington Post
The current system for choosing a presidential candidate is seriously flawed. Broder calls it insane. The recent trend of states vying to hold primaries earlier and earlier only insures that the electoral campaign to follow will be mind-numbingly long, repetitive, exhausting for candidates and voters alike and insanely expensive. Scheduling primaries over a broader time window would allow candidates other than the front runners to express their views; it would allow time for serious consideration of the issues; and it would leave the race open until the end, encouraging informed choices rather than knee-jerk sound-bite publicity-based politics, which is what the system has become…BS
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/21/AR2007022101586.html
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