The Dems Have a Stupid Primary Process

With all this hubbub over the Michigan and Florida debacle, I have a few things I need to get off my chest.

For starters, Hillary Clinton is destroying her political career. Desperation does not become her, and all this goalpost-moving would only hurt her in the general election. She had every opportunity to run a clean campaign, but she has instead abandoned grace for raw ambition.

Concerning Michigan and Florida, the compromise under which they're all seated with a half vote each seems like a fair solution considering the voters deserve to have some kind of voice despite the failure of their representatives in the state legislature. I find the Clinton campaign's idea that Obama should receive 0 votes to be despicable, but that ain't gonna happen anyway.

As for the primary process itself, I have one simple and yet foolproof solution: every state has closed primaries on the same day, let's say somewhere in the middle of May, and there are no superdelegates. Every party member gets one vote, no independents or Republicans may be part of the process without changing affiliation, and there's no need to be concerned with party elites picking the candidate.

In addition, instant runoff voting should be the mechanism by which everyone votes. Not only is it a much more fair method, it's probably the only way a candidate could possibly secure a majority in such a large field.

It's a shame that makes too much sense to actually happen.