by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math
Lieberman-Alexander-Klobuchar doesn't seem like the right way to reshuffle the primaries. Most importantly, it allows the whole process to start before March 1st, which is still far too early. In addition, the "rotating regional primary" always strikes me as silly. "The West" is a far more demographically and ideologically diverse than any of the other regions. Giving one region an entire month to lead off is going to lead to more bias in the system, not less. It has Joe Lieberman's name on it. I could go on.
We could have a perfectly uncompressed primary schedule starting on March 15th, and ending the week before Memorial Day, or even stretch it out further into the summer (I humbly suggest the days of the midsummer convention are over; they'll all be in late August or September at this point). There's no reason that the formal portion of running for President needs to remain a 23 month process.
—Signed, not Ezra Klein
