U.S Presidential election is just around corner, November 3, 2020.

To what extant do you know about it? Actually, I just started to learn the system of U.S. election. However, it is complicated and interesting. Recently, I found the interesting argument regarding U.S. presidential election: “Political parties should nominate candidates for president in a national primary”. The definition of National primary is that A national primary is a proposed system for conducting the United States presidential primaries and caucuses, in which all of the primaries and caucuses would occur on the same day. It isn’t current case. Today, the sequential nomination process has been adapted.

As for pro-national primary group, they have three main opinions. First of all, they insisted the sequential nomination causes the chaotic and selfーdefeating race to the first states to hold a nominating contest. In addition, it results in low voter turnout. Thirdly, only Iowa and New Hampshire, where the primary election is held at first, can be privileged position. The key point that they claim that the sequential nomination process is really unfair for people who live the states, where primary election is held lately. Also, the financial strength and degree of familiarity could be most important for candidate rather than their ability.

On the contrast, con-primary election has also counter-argument. What they want to emphasis is that candidates need a lot of time to build their campaigns and develop their started, and built momentum through the long-running events. Furthermore, candidates can make their quality high step by step. Additionally, because of dispersed-media, candidates cannot appeal completely on one day in primary election.

In conclusion, I would like to support primary election. In my points of view, equality for citizens must be most important rather than convenient for candidates. However, there is still difficult to be institutionalized and the sequential nomination does not offer significant improvement, according to this debate. Consequently, U.S. government have to make effort to change system that all citizens can agree.

Reference: Richard J. Ellis and Michael Nelson eds., Debating Reform: Conflicting Perspectives on How to Fix the American Political System, 2nd ed. (Thousand Oaks, CA: CQ Press, 2014)