A New Way to Primary Vote

Mike Huckabee, this site's candidate of choice, the candidate everyone loves to love, continues to get some good press around the country.

Recently, a Paul Greenberg commentary appeared in the Washington Times (see article link on the home page) criticizing most of the Presidential candidates on both sides.  "They're about as exciting as tapioca."  He continued saying, "Maybe if the rest of the country knew who Mike Huckabee was, the way Arkansas has come to know him, this state's former governor might attract some attention. But the rest of the country doesn't — despite his wowing the late-night comics. Result: As a presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee is still the political equivalent of 'Unidentified Man in Background'."

Now, it's funny to me.  This is but one example of many that essentially tells the same story.  People like Mike, and they write about it, and then he continues to be "the unidentified man in the background".  At what point will all the glowing reviews finally turn into the all important SUPPORT?!   Why, oh why, are the people in this country more interested in supporting a "frontrunner" more than they are of the candidate they all admit they like better?  The very purpose of the primary is to vote for the candidate you like best and best voices your views to a national audience.

Solution?  This will never happen, but wouldn't it be cool in a primary to vote for your Top 2 candidates assigning a point value to each?  In this way, you actually would get to vote for the candidate you liked better while taking the "easy" way out if you are worried about that candidates "chances".  Now, assume that everyone splits their first vote amongst "the big three" and everyone votes for Huckabee as their "second choice".  When the points are tallied, Huckabee may very well end up the nominee and would certainly better represent the majority of people.  Everyone could be happy.

Doing this could also avoid the hassle of run off elections, which get expensive for the candidates, not to mention tiring.

Again, I know this would never happen.  Some things just make too much sense.