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FWIW, I think the party nomination systems are reasonably well-designed and having a sequential nomination process is more robust in many respects than having all elections on one day. The biggest flaw IMO is that the same non-representative states (IA/NH) always go first.
One minor thing: I'd like to see the Dems' delegate allocation give more of a bonus to state winners instead of being *so* proportional, especially later in the process.

e.g. maybe for primaries after April 1, 30% of a state's delegates are winner-take-all; 40% after May 1, etc
That would balance out the incentives for states between going early and late and could help a candidate who emerged as a frontrunner midway through the process to have a clearer victory without needing a contested convention, etc.
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