The Kansas Senate Committee on Federal & State Affairs has introduced SB 290, which would re-establish a presidential primary in Kansas. The bill would also move the non-presidential primary from August to early May. The presidential primary would be in early May as well. Thanks to FrontloadingHQ for this news.
“When candidates… advance through multi-candidate primaries we tend to see more partisan winners. Why is that? There’s a phenomenon called the center-squeeze effect that works against moderate candidates appealing to the center.” This is from ElectionScience.org.
Kansas does not need a presidential primary.
For Kansas to lead the world in the success of each student (who wants a good education) as the State Board of Education in Topeka expressed its vision just a few years ago, new ideas and new people need to come to the fore. We must stop hiring teachers who prmarily want lifetime jobs with government in order to teach our children. With changes to plurality voting we change serve families better. Change is hard. But change is necessary.