"I think, frankly, that the American public is just fed up with the game-playing of both political parties," said Bailey, an adviser on Gerald Ford's 1976 presidential campaign. "And this is just another example of it. How stupid can you get?"
In a USA TODAY article, our own Doug Bailey was interviewed about his views on the accelerated primary schedule.
He continued, "You don't even have a very good sense of what the issues will be in the (general) election when you pick the nominee this early," he said. "This just feeds the public frustration."
Allan J. Lichtman, a presidential campaign expert at American University says, "It has the risk of further alienating the voters, who are going to get inundated very early with these (general election) campaign commercials. The accelerated calendar also creates a vast time span for a third party movement."
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