Letter to the editor: U.S. should have one primary date

The presidential candidates for the two major parties in the November presidential election are now set. The significant majority of voters in this country don’t like either one of them. We are now, thanks to our primary process, reduced to choosing not whom we like the best, but rather whom we hate the most.

How did this happen?

For starters, there is the problem noted in your editorial “Does the presidential primary matter in Pennsylvania” (March 7, TribLive). The voters in Pennsylvania have been denied the opportunity to have any role in selecting our parties’ candidates. Most of the candidates for president were weeded out long before Super Tuesday. They were eliminated after the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary. What makes the voters of Iowa and New Hampshire so much smarter than Pennsylvania voters enabling them to choose our candidates?

The solution is obviously one primary date where all states vote for our parties’ candidates on the same day. If not, our state Legislature should move our primary date to the date of the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary. This would ensure that we have some participation in the selection of our parties’ candidates.

Al Lindsay

Buffalo Township