My main problem with caucuses is that you have to be available at a particular time or else you can't vote. No absentee voters. No elderly or disabled voters. No observant Jewish voters in Nevada, because the caucus was on Saturday!
As for the primary calendar: First, if there were a national primary, I don't think all of the attention would be on big-delegate states unless the states are winner-take-all. In a proportional-win state (which they all are on the Dem side), campaigning would be about picking the state where you think you can most easily pick up another delegate or 3. That would probably end up being the densest areas, but not necessarily the biggest states.
But second, I think my preference is not a national primary. I keep waffling back and forth between that and two other choices: A series of 4 or 5 primary days, each 3 or 4 weeks apart, on each of which 10 or 12 states vote. They would either be divided up by state size, with the smallest going first and the biggest going last, or by region of the country, with the choice of which goes first rotating every 4 years.
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Re: None of the Above/All of the Above
As for the primary calendar: First, if there were a national primary, I don't think all of the attention would be on big-delegate states unless the states are winner-take-all. In a proportional-win state (which they all are on the Dem side), campaigning would be about picking the state where you think you can most easily pick up another delegate or 3. That would probably end up being the densest areas, but not necessarily the biggest states.
But second, I think my preference is not a national primary. I keep waffling back and forth between that and two other choices: A series of 4 or 5 primary days, each 3 or 4 weeks apart, on each of which 10 or 12 states vote. They would either be divided up by state size, with the smallest going first and the biggest going last, or by region of the country, with the choice of which goes first rotating every 4 years.