Reply #10: I agree with you totally about the need to spread out the primaries [View All]

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The current trend to front-loading and bunching together is just nuts. With media-driven politics already so much out of control, there has to be at least one point, early in the primary, where voters meet the candidates one on one. This is important not only for the voters and the voting process, but for the CANDIDATES.

I was involved in calling voters during Iowa caucus and NH primary, and I was TOTALLY impressed by the voters I talked to-- how much they cared about doing a good job, how aware they were of their responsibility, how well-informed they were.. especially in Iowa. I thought to myself more than once: this is the way the WHOLE election should be. Bunching up the primaries makes it harder than ever for voters and candidates to get to know each other.