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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
How would you do it, especially with the sort of mind-boggling amounts of money they have to raise to even be competitive in the primaries?
It sounds like a great idea, but how?
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I thought about this more while laying in bed trying to fall asleep. This is what I would do:
Primary candidates announce their intentions to run in May of the election year, a set number of debates are held by each party.
Primaries are a one day event in August, the whole country, same day. Then the Conventions are held with the same timing as this year.
10 televised/radio broadcast debates of varying formats between mid-September and November with no personal appearances, no bus tours of the country, no flying all over the place. There can still be grass roots level things like mailings, door to door, lawn signs, etc, but NO pre-recorded telephone calls! NO PRE-RECORDED TELEPHONE CALLS! (they are making me crazy, honestly, and I think the No Call List should include political propaganda)
That gives us a 6 month election process rather than two years. It really was two full years this time and that's just nuts.
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