Rotating Regional Primary System

In 2005, the Democratic National Committee's Commission on Presidential Nomination Timing and Scheduling ranked it ninth on a list of ten priorities, just above keeping the status quo.

The size of the initial regional primary may be large enough to prevent less-funded candidates from being able to compete.

Larry Sabato, Director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, proposed a lottery system in his book A More Perfect Constitution.

Given the stability of the voting patterns over the last several elections, regions might be balanced politically, at the possible cost of some contiguity.

For example, instead of including Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey in with New York and New England, a balanced region might bounce over to Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky instead.

Map of the Rotating Regional Plan. Red is East, Yellow is Midwest, Green is South, and Blue is the West region.
Map of same-sized politically balanced regions. All 4 regions voted between 48% and 53% (and between 48% and 59% of electoral votes) for the GOP in the most recent election. Note loss of contiguity in the red and green regions.