From the Primaries to the Polls: How to Repair America's Broken Presidential Nomination Process [Kindle Edition]

Thomas Gangale (Author)

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"Gangale is passionate about reforming the current presidential primary system. He briefly covers some familiar topics such as the historical evolution of the process and, more recently, how the reforms of the McGover-Fraser Commission have been perverted. The heart of the book, however, is a proposal to replace the current process with what Gangale calls the American Plan. One of the key features of this plan is for small states to hold primaries early and have large states vote last. Apparently Gangales proposal has gains some support within the National Association of Secretaries of State. Whether or not one agrees with Gangale's proposal, he has written a thoughtful, readable prescription for electoral reform. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduate through professional collections."

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"Thomas Gangale draws our attention to what is the greatest flaw in American democracy-the totally unfair system by which a small number of arbitrarily selected states, such as Iowa and New Hampshire, dominate the presidential nominating process. His proposed solution to the problem is both innovative and practical. This book will help move the United States in the direction of reforming how we nominate our presidential candidates."

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Robert D. Loevy, Professor of Political Science, Colorado College

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Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 2804 KB
• Print Length: 280 pages
• Publisher: Praeger (December 30, 2007)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B001PGXCBC
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #843,367 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

Thomas Gangale holds a Bachelor of Science degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Southern California, and a Master of Arts degree in international relations from San Francisco State University.

Upon graduating from USC, Gangale reluctantly turned down an offer from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to join the Voyager mission control team due to his prior commitment to the United States Air Force. He was both an airman and an officer in the USAF, serving as an air traffic controller, an F-4 weapon systems officer, and an historian. Also while on active duty, he served on the technical management teams of several satellite projects of the highest national priority involving national technical means of verification of strategic arms control agreements, as well as a Strategic Defense Initiative satellite program and two Space Shuttle payloads (STS-4 and STS-39).

He has published numerous articles in aerospace and social science journals, has presented papers at several aerospace symposia, has written opinion editorials in major metropolitan newspapers, and has appeared as a guest on international radio and television programs. He is a leading authority on timekeeping systems for other planets, and is the inventor of a class of orbits that will be essential to communication between Earth and crews in the vicinity of Mars. He was an original member of the Design and Project Management Team for the Mars Arctic Research Station, a NASA-related Mars analog research facility located near the Haughton Meteor Crater on Devon Island in the Canadian Arctic. His work on property rights and the international law of outer space has been briefed to senior NASA leaders. He is currently working on a comprehensive history of the scheduling of human spaceflight in two dimensions of time.

Along with space exploration, Gangale has had a lifelong interest in history, politics, and international relations. He is the author of the American Plan for reforming the presidential nomination process, which is has the support of the California Democratic Party and has been recommended for consideration within the Democratic National Committee. He serves as executive director for OPS-Alaska, a research firm, where he continues to develop other electoral reform proposals in cooperation with political parties and civic organizations. He also serves on the board of the People's Lobby Educational Foundation.