By now I hope you have read my April 13 column "Break out the smelling salts" and, like most Sundays, were so impressed/intrigued by my masterful plan to resurrect the electoral process in this country from the dead that you are aching for a breakdown of how, under the Glantz Plan, the primary slate would break down.

As stated in the column, the whole mindset of candidates spending a year campaigning for a sole primary in dinky Iowa, after which media spin doctors hold eulogies for 75 percent of the field, we are not allowing anyone to officially declare their candidacy until after the bikinis are put away and Labor Day has passed.

That leaves a little more than sixth months to build up to the first set of primaries, which will be held in the 13 original colonies on the first Tuesday after my birthday - March 23.

In case you are not up on your continental history, those states would be: Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina and Rhode Island.

Analysis: There are enough big states on the above list to separate the pretenders from contenders better than some caucuses in Iowa. And with the voters that first night ranging from New England to the Deep South, the demographics will be established.

After skipping a week, we'd hold primaries in the next seven states to join the Union. In pecking, that would be the following: Vermont, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana, Indiana and Mississippi.

Analysis: Again, we get a cross-section from the Midwest and the south. The tell-tale state of Ohio would receive most of the attention from the media, but smart candidates could keep hope flickering - and donations coming - by campaigning in the others as well.

This brings us to what would shake down as Super Tuesday, which would come after another one-week break. The states, in order of seniority, are as follows: Illinois, Alabama, Maine, Missouri, Arkansas, Michigan, Florida, Texas, Iowa and Wisconsin.

Analysis: It would be only fitting that Iowa end up lost amidst this group. That aside, this primary would have been April 22, the same day of just one (albeit our own here in Pennsylvania) in the current flawed system. There may not be much reason to go on after this for most candidates, but this plan will have surely kept more on the ballot than the current dysfunctional system that frustrates most voters.

Skip two weeks again, and the front-runners will be more obvious - and represent more of a cross-section of America - than after Iowa and New Hampshire.

In the next group of ten, we have California. That would be enough to keep long-shot dreams alive. Another sizeable prize in this group would be Colorado. The others: Minnesota, Oregon, Kansas, West Virginia, Nevada, Nebraska and the two Dakotas.

Analysis: There are some liberal states in this group, meaning a GOP centrist may bolster his or her campaign while a fading Democrat with far-left leanings could get a jolt. And California is too large of a prize to concede without a fight. Therefore, we are 40 states deep with choices on the ballot.

And ... We're not done. There is a grand finale. Ten states - plus territories ranging from Washington, D.C., to Puerto Rico - still have yet to vote. They are: Montana, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, Alaska and Hawaii. Other territories include the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa and Guam.

Analysis: Arizona, Washington and Oklahoma are big enough prizes that it safe to say that either party could have contested primaries on the final day. And maybe, just maybe, we'll feel a little better about the choice we have come November.