Politicking '08

We need a National Presidential Election. The media will shorten it to NPE. The Electoral College may have been a good system in 1800, but with speedy (sort of) national transportation and communications systems, it has become rather archaic, cumbersome, expensive, and as seen in 2000, not always reflecting or respecting the people's choice. If you were trying to get something done at city hall, would you rather know the man whom knows the MAN, or would you rather know the MAN himself? Most people would rather deal with the MAN personally, I think. Same way with voting. Would you rather vote for the candidate, or for someone else whom will cast a vote in your name? The later is the way our nation's voting system operates.

I believe The United States of America is the only country in the free world—or any world for that matter—that does not have a national election of any sort. We have the Red States of America and the Blue States of America, but no real United States of America in any sense when it comes time to elect the front man for all of us.

The Constitution of the United States, which I believe is the most important document ever to be written, treads a thin and narrow line—or maybe a better way to say it is a thin and narrow thread—between the rights of individuals and the duties of government. That fragile thread is what binds us as a free society. However, it is a thread that is flexible enough to allow for change. YOU are the person responsible for getting it changed. The American election system needs to be positively altered: One Person; One Vote, and each vote should count!

The wisdom of The Framers of the American Constitution boggles my mind. Newton, Einstein, da Vinci. et al. were geniuses, but The Framers were a collection of extremely wise geniuses. In just a short time and by working together, these men changed the world. Every freedom, however large or small that we enjoy today, including me being able to write this article uncensored, was proposed and fine tuned by these great individuals working as one*. If only the Electoral College worked this well!

*Actually, freedom of speech and freedom of the the press are parts of the First Amendment to the Constitution, but The Framers foresaw a need for change and wisely allowed for amendments.