"Absolute, total chaos in 2012"

[matt_rah]

The Karmaggedon future draws ever nigh-er.

Add to the official Karmageddon timeline: Winter and Spring 2012 -- each state holds its primary before every other state, causing both a temporal paradox and a convention floor fight.

Comments

[ornithoptercat]

The current primary system needs to die. Everyone votes on the same day, and none of this superdelegate crap - that's how it needs to go.

Of course, we also need to get rid of delegates and the electoral college entirely, and just count the popular vote in both the primary and the election, or at the very least force all of them to vote based on the popular vote - either 1) all states all-or-nothing, or preferably 2) all states proportional to vote. (The latter being MUCH preferable, so that the few largest states don't become the only ones that matter.) The current systems completely break the principle of "one person, one vote", and the original reasons for their existence have been negated by modern technology.

[matt_rah]

Word.

[instigator_ash]

Seconded!

[instigator_ash]

Although, there is an argument for not all voting at once. Basically, as each state's turn comes up, that state gets attention from the politicians. If they all go at once, the politicians will instead go where they can reach the largest number of people simultaneously. This would be large metropolitan centers-- New York, Los Angeles, and soforth.