Imagine that a convention of clowns met to design an amusing, crazy-quilt schedule to nominate presidential candidates. The resulting system would probably look much as ours does today. The incoherent organization of primaries and caucuses, and the candidates’ mad-dash attempts to move around the map, would be funny if the goal — electing the leader of the free world — weren’t so serious. CONT.
Larry J. Sabato, Sabato’s Crystal Ball
National regions for hypothetical primary system
