By having the primary so late – we here in PA have no influence over who the nominee is. We should at least move it up to Super Tuesday.

Give Pennsylvania a voice, don’t let us just get to pick from the leftovers.

Tami

I agree, move the date to super Tuesday!

the electoral college is complete shit. its time for one man – one vote

The electoral college is worthless because our federal government has taken over many of the responsibilities that were intended to be handled within individual states. To me, eliminating the electoral college would serve to help this long-term trend of federalization. Whether you agree with these developments or not, it is pertinent to the electoral college debate.

As for having such a late primary…. I agree. Ideally, everyone would just vote on the same day. Another better alternative would be to vote twice. After the first primary, people drop out and another held (again nationwide). That way we as a country can shift our votes appropriately between candidates within each party.

Pennsylvanians should have a voice in who the presidential canidates will be move the primaries to Super Tuesday and let our voices be heard!

What i want to know is why so late?
people must know it’ll matter less?
Super Tuesday seems like a no brainer.
Oh and without a doubt…should be one man one vote.

I agree with previous posters. The primaries should be held on the same day, nation-wide, just like the presidential vote. We should also get rid of the electoral college, and implement instant runoff voting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting

http://www.instantrunoff.com/

...but start teaching people American history. IMO, very few people actually know American history so they’re doomed to make the same mistakes that our country has already gone through.

Just say no to MOB RULE!

^^ I totally forgot about instant runoff voting. Yeah, we should do that.

We need our primary on Super Tuesday. Why is every state ahead of PA in moving their dates up? Why are we last in everything?

I agree with all the previous. WE NEED TO MOVE OUR DATE UP.

I can’t understand why states like Iowa and New Hampshire get to control who can run for President and PA, with two large cities (Phila and Pitt) get shoved to the back of the line and disenfranchised of our right to pick Presidential candidates. The current system denies U.S. citizens an equal vote because of the way the primary system operates. PA citizens NEED to petition the legislature and Governor in PA to move the primary to no later than Super Tuesday.

It is looking like PA’s Primary will be significant after all.

Super Tsunami Tuesday is really a bad thing. Many of the states that opted for that date are going to find candidates picking and choosing where they can go anyway since campaign dollars among the top tier contenders is running rather low.

The race for each party’s nomination does not look like it will be settled any time soon. Sometimes it is best to sit back and take the long view instead of getting all worked up about nothing.

The electoral college system works but should be broken down to the county level within each state. Take PA for example: The majority of the counties voted republican but Pitt & Phili carried the state democrat because of their population. A popular vote would silence the voice of rural communities.

we need open primaries and all of them should be held the same day. no one state or vote should be more important than another.

Although a national primary sounds like a good idea, the cost and logistics would make it unfeasible. The money alone involved to run a campaign like that would ensure only the richest would be viable candidates. Look how much they spend in the first few states alone.

A national primary, and 1 man 1 vote would only ensure that the campaigns would be fought in highly populated cities and states, areas like new york, CA, etc. at least this way the first few states get a real good look at the candidates. In a national election we’d be luck to catch a few hours of debates along with the hight of bias, the 30 second commercial spot.

Its nowhere near a perfect system, but I don’t a have a big problem letting states like NH and Nevada have their say first, we all know those small states will be lucky to catch a whiff of a candidate.

If a candidate has true appeal, they can rebound from early losses, or they can decide to skip them all together and focus on the big ones, a la Giuliani… though that doesn’t seem to be working out that well.

why cant we change/adopt a great idea that seems to be on the minds of many people,esp here and i am sure would be the consenous of many—-ONE PERSON ONE VOTE!!! seems to be a great way to cut out all the special interests of political groups and their agendas which we all know have infiltrated our local stste and federal govts

Jesus H. Christ people, ONE PERSON ONE VOTE?!?!? How god damn dumb are you? We are a Democratic Republic NOT a full and true democracy and it was INTENDED that way! If anything, it would increase special interest political groups, who would try and push their views on others through get out the vote efforts. In a true one man, one vote, democracy majority rules. Therefore the group with the most money to back their political agenda would drive the voter turnout effort and subvert the process.

Just because you, and most Americans, don’t understand the electoral college doesn’t mean we should get rid of it.

MAX 8 years in 8 years out

It’s interesting to see how the comments go along just fine with differing views and ideas and then it happens. Some one that can’t understand why everyone doesn’t think exactly the way they do pops up and destroys any chance of a civilized discussion. Sadly, it is this voice that most of America hears anymore. There are ways to change things and there are ways to keep the status quo…just listen to each other and respect each other.
JP

Hi all. The tone of this discussion seems to have become unproductive. I’m going to shut down comments on this post. Feel free to comment on other posts as long as you’re respectful and stay on topic.