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One criticism of the regional system is that the East is a very liberal region, while the South is very conservative. Given the stability of the voting patterns over the last several elections, regions might be balanced politically, at the possible cost of some contiguity. For example, instead of
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The plan provides that the individual state primaries (or caucuses) would be grouped into 4 regions, each region voting in a different month—either March, April, May or June. Individual states in a region would vote on or soon after the first Tuesday of their month, though not necessarily on the
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including Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey in with New York and New England, a balanced region might bounce over to Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky instead. There would be a loss of regional identity, and non-contiguous regions, but there would be a gain of political balance.
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In a given election, after the first and second regions have held primaries, the remaining two regions can be combined to hold a final primary. This would shorten the primary schedule, and leave no fourth primary likely scheduled after the nominees have been selected.
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Map of same-sized politically balanced regions. All 4 regions voted between 48% and 53% (and between 48% and 59% of electoral votes) for the GOP in the most recent election. Note loss of contiguity in the red and green
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This can also be adjusted to prevent a region from being picked twice in a row, or to prevent any region that went first the last two times from going first.
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To continue traditional early primaries in Iowa and New Hampshire, they would be permitted to hold their primaries or caucus before any of the regions.
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Commission on Presidential Nomination Timing and Scheduling ranked it ninth on a list of ten priorities, just above keeping the status quo.
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process, in which the country would be divided into four regions for primary elections. The plan has been promoted since 1999 by the
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The size of the initial regional primary may be large enough to prevent less-funded candidates from being able to compete.
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Advisory Commission on the Presidential Nominating Process passed over the Rotating Regional plan in favor of the
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same day. The first year, the order would be determined by lottery, and subsequently rotate for each election.
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Map of the Rotating Regional Plan. Red is East, Yellow is Midwest, Green is South, and Blue is the West region.
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Both the Republican and Democratic parties have been lukewarm to the concept. In 2000, the
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