If the purpose of having the primaries scattered out over the first quarter of the year or so is to give the candidates the opportunity to focus on each state individually, then why are 22 of them held on the same day?

 If the mechanics of holding primaries are such that 22 of them can be held on the same day, then why spread the rest out over a quarter of the year?

 Obviously, seeing how the earlier states vote affects the later states.  For instance, I can’t vote for Fred because he dropped out on me.  What if the states held their votes, but didn’t reveal the results until everyone else had the chance to vote too?  Put the results in a mayonnaise jar on Funk and Wagnall’s porch, someplace secure, and make it a federal crime to leak anything prematurely.

 The secret ballot concept maybe ought to be applied on a state level.

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