I don't think anyone is completely happy with the way Presidential elections are run in this country; maybe some pundits and "beltway insiders" have grown to enjoy the predictability of the way elections play out, so they can sound smart on TV and other media forums, but the rest of us just put up with it because we're used to it. Obviously there is an obscene amount of money being put into these elections (and more and more non-presidential elections as well), and I'm totally in favor of rigorous campaign finance reform, as well as the overturning of Citizen's United....unfortunately those kinds of reform have become incredibly politicized and would take a great amount of political capital and willpower to properly fix.
Instead, I have a couple of fairly simple and (what I consider to be) non-partisan ideas to change the Presidential elections, so the entire process is a lot more palatable:
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