Barack Obama on the campaign trail in Oregon in 2008 at a rally attended by over 80,000 people
The current arrangements for nominating presidential candidates are now so fatally flawed that they are ready for reform. According to one commentator, the existing presidential nomination process has not produced candidates with mass appeal and has proven time-consuming and often prohibitively expensive. Equally, the prospect of imposing unwanted nominees on ill-informed voters and reluctant party leaders tends to reduce its appeal further. To most party officials the primary election process represents an open invitation to fratricidal conflict. Here are seven reasons why the whole process is so hopelessly flawed.
(1) Too long
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