Wednesday, April 8, 2026

How the parties should order their primaries

It's been well documented that the states that vote first in the primaries have an outsized voice in choosing the candidates for President for both parties. It therefore seems to make sense that the parties should take more control over the order they go in. And that the order shoule be designed to help them win - because like that's the goal - to choose a candidate who will win in November. I think they should reorder the primaries every year based on how close each state's vote was. And spread them out one a week instead of bunching them so that candidates can just roll into the next one. So I created a 25 week schedule (which would start in mid- January and end at the end of June). Each week has an "anchor" state, ranked out vote margin, and sometimes smaller states to fill it out so that, except when a very large state is the anchor, they all have about 10-11 million people. I threw the territories in where with their closest states. In some cases I considered geography to try and keep neighbor states together. Here's what I got: 1. Wisconsin New Hampshire Nevada 2. Michigan 3. Pennsylvania 4. Georgia 5. North Carolina 6. Minnesota New Mexico Maine Rhode Island 7. Arizona Iowa 8. Virginia Delaware 9. New Jersey Montana 10. Illinois 11. Colorado Oregon 12. Ohio 13. New York 14. Florida Puerto Rico VI 15. Texas 16. South Carolina Connecticut South Dakota North Dakota 17. Washington Idaho Alaska 18. Missouri Mississippi Vermont 19. Indiana Utah 20. California 21. Louisiana Kentucky Hawaii Pacific territories 22. Massachusetts Arkansas 23. Maryland Oklahoma 24. Tennessee Kansas 25. Alabama Wyoming DC West Virginia Nebraska By coincidence NH is still an early state, as is Nevada. I welcome the Wisconsin kick off Primary.

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