I don't see why we don't just have all the states do their primary/caucus on the same day.

@RoboGraham It helps whittle down the herd and gives the3m time to visit all or most of the states.

@Sticks48 That makes sense. I think a better way would be to have it all done on the same day but vote by ranked choice. Do it later in the year to give all the candidates time to visit all the states.

@RoboGraham The problem in a year like this is the winner might be lucky to get 20%. That wouldn't work. You would have to have one or more runoffs which would ad more time to the process anyway.

Your rambling discourse actually didn't answer my question. It's as if you got lost halfway through my question, decided a word salad to toss at it without finishing the question and served it up.

... based on a subset that doesn't represent the country as a whole. Thus biasing the coverage and the metrics used to define those aspects of the election.

@redbai The candidates campaign organizations are national, and biased data is still data.

@redbai Exactly. It’s a not so subtle attempt at skewing voter intentions.

@Geoffrey51 Is there any aspect about the campaign that isn't about skewing voter intentions? That's the whole purpose of running a campaign.

@Druvius Actually, it's the campaign's job to "skew" voter intentions, but this is a dialog about the intentions of the media and it's presentation.

@redbai The media is part of the campaign, we haven't had independent mainstream media since the 80s.