Everything you say may be true, and then again, probably not. It’s that wide open. While I want my candidate to win the presidency with no uncertainty, as a pundit blogger, this campaign season is about the best thing to happen since primaries were invented to reform the “smoke-filled back rooms” of the old convention system.

However, the reform needs reforming. Scout29c’s political rule: In the campaign for the presidency, too much power and too much money is at stake for any process to go long uncorrupted.

Corrupted not so much in the sense of something illegal − although that is very much a part of our political process, always has been, always will be − but more corrupted in the sense that it not longer fulfills its democratic purpose. Power wonks figure a way to play the system to their advantage, and before you know it, were back to the same old political games we’ve been playing since the fruit from the tree of good and evil opened our eyes to the possibilities.

I don’t know if a national primary day is the answer, but having the all important expectation setting “smoke-filled back primaries” is not the answer either. Your suggestion of regional primaries has merit, and maybe we can try that four years from now.

Who knows, maybe one of the candidates will do so well Feb. 5, that what comes after will not matter. If not, Louisiana with Katrina still lingering in everyone’s mind and plenty of visuals for the visually dependent MSM will certainly give the leading candidates something to do the four days following the closes thing we are going to get to a national primary day.