Reforming the Primary Season

I think the primary system needs reforming. Look at the lack of excellence in any candidate now selected. Obama and Hillary are still battling it out for the democrat nomination, but if those two are the best the democrats can do they don't have much going for them except a nice smile and smooth phraseology in Obama and ...hmmm... I'm not sure what they have going for them in Hillary. And if McCain is the best republicans can do, they're in deep trouble, too. McCain has no new ideas, he is (excuse the use of the word) *BORING* and a leaning liberal lefty dressed up in republican labels. I have no use for him. I can see how Hillary and Obama are the best the democrats have to offer, after all we can't expect the democrats to produce excellence, but shame on the republicans for not choosing more wisely. Here's my proposition to reform the primary season so that the candidates more accurately represent the party. Right now, momentum is the key word in the primary season. It starts out slowly in Iowa and then on to New Hampshire and a few other states before a massive Super Tuesday, followed by more isolated primaries. There are several ways to reform the system. One is to hold all primaries nation wide on the same day for democrats and republicans, which cuts out the momentum factor and gives a much better chance of having a brokered convention. Of course, under this system, the brokered convention could become a place of bribery and all sorts of shenanigans and chicanery. The second option for reform involves momentum. I'll use the republican race this year for illustration. John McCain is now the republican nominee. How did he do it? He got his huge delegate lead from *blue* states. These states are not going to vote republican, and yet they have a huge influence on who the republican nominee is because of their gigantic delegate allotments and because many of them are winner takes all states, which makes the delegate count go up even faster, and they have their primaries early in the season. That's how McCain did it. From my perspective, it's not right to allow blue states to dictate who the red states are going to vote for in November, so here's my plan to solve that problem. Primaries for the republicans should be held first in red states and then after all red state primaries, blue states could hold primaries. The momentum would then be a red state momentum. A primary season according to this system would yield a candidate more representative of those who will actually be voting for the candidate in November.