That the President and Vice-President of the United States should be elected by a direct vote of the America?

Question

Opinions anyone?

Answer 1

Yes. We need to trash the constitutional requirement of the ridiculous Electoral College. We also need to break the chokehold of the Republican and Democratic parties, and allow other parties to actively be a part of campaigns, like in Europe. Most people don't agree with either of the two parties, we need more choices and be allowed to support candidates from other parties. But our dictatorial hold on govt that the two parties have does not allow for viable "3rd" parties. In many states, they cannot even get on the ballot without huge numbers of petition signers.

Answer 2

No. The candidates of each party should still be chosen just as they are today. However, I believe that they should not be directly elected, but that the candidate of the incoming minority party in the House of Representatives should be declared President of the United States. This way there would always be Oversight, and Checks and Balances for at least the first half of every President's administration.

I also believe that a system like this would cut down tremendously on the negative attack-add campaigning during the general election by "independent" organizations such as MoveOn and SwiftBoatVets, because they would have just as much to lose by their tactics as they would have to gain.

Answer 3

...yes. this is the main point of democracy: choosing your leaders.

obviously