Now that the election is over...let's talk Election Reform

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Thursday November 15, 2012 · 9:27 PM PST

2012/11/15 · 21:27

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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How would you improve Presidential elections?

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How would you improve Presidential elections?

Eliminate the electoral college

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Rotate the primary states

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Push up the election day

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A & B

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B & C

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All of the above

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Nothing; the election system is fine the way it is

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Faith-Based Economics

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Tuesday July 10, 2012 · 5:16 AM PDT

2012/07/10 · 05:16

I'm not going to expand on all the myths Republicans tell regarding taxes, because Jon Perr's excellent diary goes into far more detail than I ever could. If it wasn't already obvious to you now, cutting taxes for the rich does nothing to improve employment, increase the inflation-adjusted middle class and poor families, nor decrease the staggering income disparity between the rich and the non-rich. The Top 1% are paying less in taxes now than at any time before World War II and the total amount of revenue generated from taxes is at its lowest amount since 1950, yet Mitt Romney and his Republican brethren would have you believe that the only cure to both a failing economy and a ridiculously high national debt is to cut taxes.

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