President Trump walks from the Oval Office to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on Tuesday. By Martin O'Malley January 28 at 7:45 PM Martin O’Malley was governor of Maryland from 2007 to 2015 and a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016. This is the first op-ed in a series about how to improve the presidential nominating process.
There are many important reforms to our presidential selection process that should be adopted — curbing the corrupting influence of money, ending the electoral college, making voting a constitutional right. But none are so urgently needed as a restoration of the doctrines of equal time and fairness to media coverage of our electoral contests.
Most Americans who do know about the doctrines focus on how their end paved the way for the rise of conservative media — particularly talk radio. But less acknowledged is the effect of the doctrines’ demise on the nomination contests of our political parties. As a result, the media’s entertainment imperative has displaced the parties’ consensus-building imperative — in both primary and general elections.
In other words, regulate speech. Why is that your only solution to losing elections?
This seems to be a recipe for fixing the Republican primary of 2016. Only. It's a bit late for that.
It's about time America woke up to the fact your electoral system is found wanting. Even voting on a week day is so completely idiotic.
Simple way to fix Democratic primaries - start with six states that reflect the diversity of America.
Oh and hey if the first state is gonna have such a massive impact on how candidates think, talk act etc then how bout changing it from Iowa to someplace actually representative of the party and the nation as a whole. New York State would be the best bet id say
That is too simplistic to fix the primaries. Just get rid of winner-take-all primaries and reform the Electoral College to make the presidential election reflect the majority in Congress.
This is spot on! Thank you, Governor!
'End the electoral college ' sure then California and new York make all the decisions for The United States. Sound fair to someone in say Minnesota. 🙋♀️🤷♀️
Nah, I sure don't! I just want them to go away. Don't care about fair, whatever the hell that is, just want quiet. Lots and lots of quiet!
and there is a massive difference between journalism and what we have with the msm, including the washington compost.
Life is much more than a simple deal!!!
Secondly, anyone having voted for Trump is banned from voting until passing a basic moron test.
If you’re looking for ways to reform the primary then damn near everything needs to take a back seat to getting rid of caucuses (which are antidemocratic as hell; it’s almost as if they’re designed to exclude working people and others who can’t hang around caucusing for hours)
RadicalLeftDemParty and their minion media, academia, entertainment, sports aka EnemyWithin VoteRedToSaveAmerica Trump2020
Don’t worry, Democrats are definitely going to *fix* the primaries (for Joe Biden)
Darth Vader
Of course WaPo wants to 'fix' the primaries.
Trump is doing it!
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