Amy Walter

And most of those, if we're going to go back to where we started this conversation, Ested, with the fact that most people who get elected to Congress are going to be elected in seats that are pretty safely red or safely blue, the primaries matter more than anything.

How can we reform that is one way I've always thought is having a national primary day.

Every voter is allowed to vote in that primary.

You don't have to be Democrat or Republican.

It's an open ballot, right?

Like you pick all the candidates are on the same ballot and everybody knows to show up that day, whatever we're going to call it, June 2nd, every year, the first Tuesday in June.

I'm not going to say it's going to solve it, but it at least addresses one of the major problems.

Although, I will say, one of the challenges we have, and California is a great example of this.

I mean, they've done almost everything you could possibly do if you think about academically.

How would we solve these problems, right?

They have an open primary system.

They have a top two.

It's very easy to register to vote.

They have mail-in voting.

They have had so many different reforms.

They have ballot initiatives.

It doesn't mean that the state is...

governed better.

It doesn't mean that people feel as if like, wow, government, I'm so glad I'm a part of this.

Okay, so a gajillion dollars is going to go into this referendum that I'm going to vote on.