With my approach, wouldn't you give them a better platform by not having them have to travel to every state to make that name? Everything is online today. Seems to me that it would be a lot easier to get into the fray without all that cost.
With my approach, wouldn't you give them a better platform by not having them have to travel to every state to make that name? Everything is online today. Seems to me that it would be a lot easier to get into the fray without all that cost.
Online campaigns support and expand in-person campaigns. For the most part I think the candidates still have to get out there, and the less-known they are the more they have to get out. Funding an in-person campaign in a few smaller states is a completely different proposition than competing for the big voter/delegate piles right out of the gate. The lesser-known candidate hopes that a strong showing in an early state brings the media and the money required to ramp up to a campaign in big states.
The structural problems with our primaries are the favoritism toward the same few early states (not that they're not "representative," just that they're the same); and, the favoritism toward first-place finishers in multi-candidate fields. Ranked or scored ballots would help with the latter.
With my approach, wouldn't you give them a better platform by not having them have to travel to every state to make that name? Everything is online today. Seems to me that it would be a lot easier to get into the fray without all that cost.
Online campaigns support and expand in-person campaigns. For the most part I think the candidates still have to get out there, and the less-known they are the more they have to get out. Funding an in-person campaign in a few smaller states is a completely different proposition than competing for the big voter/delegate piles right out of the gate. The lesser-known candidate hopes that a strong showing in an early state brings the media and the money required to ramp up to a campaign in big states.
The structural problems with our primaries are the favoritism toward the same few early states (not that they're not "representative," just that they're the same); and, the favoritism toward first-place finishers in multi-candidate fields. Ranked or scored ballots would help with the latter.