Americans Call for Term Limits, End to Electoral College

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57. It's an admission that our process is corrupt.

An election is a term limit. If politicians grow in power beyond the ability to remove them from office, then a term limit is like bringing a box of band-aids to a shotgun fight. It is a cosmetic treatment of a very serious problem.

I personally really dislike the electoral college, particularly when our insular interior ignorantly blasts its stupidity across the national stage. Over half of our states voted for a pathologically dishonest corporate criminal religious kook who shouldn't be walking around as a free man. Under the current process, had Romney been a hair closer in half a dozen races, the election would have been tossed into Congress and Romney would have won because the voting is done on a modified by-state basis.

As the GOP shrinks in relevance, it is obvious that their efforts are turning back to election-gaming, rather than election-winning, as if we needed another reminder that our electoral process is broken.

Romney did do us one big favor, by delivering a loss that bled over into the Senate elections, making it a very, very costly loss for the corporate interests that drove his campaign. Their investment produced a highly negative result, so they may be less interested in trying to buy elections in the near future.

But they will be back soon.