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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Why wouldn't we want to have them all on the same day? Th only reason I can think of are that it would keep candidates who don't have a lot of money up front from having any chance whatsoever (whereas now they can campaign hard in a couple places and gain momentum from doing well at that point), but that doesn't seem to be viable even today.
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That's one reason. The other is that states like Iowa and New Hampshire know they would become irrelevant if their primaries weren't first, so they fight like dogs to make sure they're first and have some increase influence.
One certainly could design a much more efficient system that would have some primaries earlier and some later, each having a cross-section of states. The early ones would winnow hte field; the late ones would confirm the nominee. For fairness, the states could rotate who was early and late.
