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I've been thinking today about one of the many ways our pre-election (primary, caucus, whatever) system sucks. As a Michigan voter, I have more than the nationwide average share of things to complain about, but this is what was getting me today:
Wouldn't it be a lot smarter to hold primaries from, say, May through August, with a convention in September, so that the momentum from the primary season would have some chance of carrying straight through to early November? (Or even: primaries June through September, convention in early October, just four weeks before the election!)
As it is, just imagine: if by any chance Obama or Clinton can clinch the nomination tomorrow -- February 5! -- the voters will have a full NINE MONTHS to cool off and cease to care before November rolls around. And the dirty ops people will have the same nine months to dig up and/or make up all sorts of dirt about whoever the nominee is. Why give them so long?
