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Morning after
Nov. 7th, 2012 09:43 amI have the solution to this "every four years madness" that gets the whole country tied up in knots, costs untold amounts of money, and puts everyone under so much stress.
1. One term. Six years. (With an eight year limit based on the president getting re-elected in the fourth year, nearly two full years are wasted campaigning.) Imagine if the president had six uninterrupted years to focus on nothing but his job and with no need to worry about getting re-elected.
2. Strict spending limits on the campaign. I do not buy into the whole "money is free speech" business. Money is money, and if something costs money it's not free.
3. Strict time limits on the campaign. This process is so stretched out that voters are sick of it all by election day. A week's campaigning allowed per primary state, and no national campaigning or national ads allowed prior to the party conventions.
4. Standardization of the ballots for national office. Some states have a process for allowing third parties on the ballot, some allow write-ins and some don't, and some states manage to shut out any party except for the two main parties. There is something wrong with this.
Anyhow, I think life would be a lot less stressful this way, and maybe the government would actually be able to get things done without the specter of re-election hanging over everyone.
1. One term. Six years. (With an eight year limit based on the president getting re-elected in the fourth year, nearly two full years are wasted campaigning.) Imagine if the president had six uninterrupted years to focus on nothing but his job and with no need to worry about getting re-elected.
2. Strict spending limits on the campaign. I do not buy into the whole "money is free speech" business. Money is money, and if something costs money it's not free.
3. Strict time limits on the campaign. This process is so stretched out that voters are sick of it all by election day. A week's campaigning allowed per primary state, and no national campaigning or national ads allowed prior to the party conventions.
4. Standardization of the ballots for national office. Some states have a process for allowing third parties on the ballot, some allow write-ins and some don't, and some states manage to shut out any party except for the two main parties. There is something wrong with this.
Anyhow, I think life would be a lot less stressful this way, and maybe the government would actually be able to get things done without the specter of re-election hanging over everyone.