The founders warned us of the dangers of political parties. And since we have only a two party systems that is ineffective, citizens are left with only one choice. Choose the party who thinks government is the only answer to everyone's problem. The alternative is the party who has no solutions but to lower taxes, increase debt, and start unwanted wars.

The fact that mud-slinging and baseless accusations occur is the result of those who would seek power at any cost, and be indebted to those who paid for that privilege. Until the American citizen decide that our process for selecting representatives must change, we will be restricted to inferior candidates with little or no real ideas.

True reform comes from the people and to the government; not from the government upon itself.

As Americans, the call to military service and support of US policies is on the basis of that others in other countries are denied their civil liberties. But how are we to protect our own civil liberties when the abuse comes from our own government? If Sarbanes-Oxely taught us anything, it is that institutions do not self-regulate. They must be regulated by an independant body and reviewed by a third party.

Americans must demand change through their own state governors and a constitutional ammendment.

The Congress has the power to create tribunals. The question to be asked is why the congress hasn’t put in place a court to prosecute these persons at Guantanamo bay? Article 1, section 8 clause 9 specifically gives congress the power to form any court or tribunal inferior to the Supreme court. So why haven't they done so? Our consitution also give congress the authority to create rules 'surrounding the capture either on land or sea'.

This is another example of a failure of a branch of our government.

The Congress has abdicated its Constitutional authority to the Executive and the Judiciary.

Republicans, having a clear social agenda, clearly do not have an economic strategy. Simply to borrow and spend is not an economic strategy to providing government services, and even Joe can understand that. It is not so surprising that the Republicans only rely on attack ads and smears on candidates who don't agree with their views since they cannot provide a cohesive and simple strategy.

This election is a reminder of 1992. Unfortunately, Democrats cannot win unless there is a recession timed with a presidential election because there solution to have government provide all solutions is a strategy that most Americans cannot stomach.

Back to the drawing board. Dems should enjoy their short lived success.

Obama will win in landslide approaching over 400 electoral votes so we aren't even near the issues we have suffered in the last two elections. Which bring me to my blog....where I recommend that we eliminate 1 electoral vote from each state.

In doing this, it would cut down the small states influence and would have resulted in a correct outcome in 2 of the 3 instances since the civil war where this was an issue. It wouldn't have helped Cleveland in 1888, but it would have saved Gore in 2000.

A constitutional convention or series of amendments to the constitution is what is needed to fix our elections and government. See the blog!

Obama will win between 340 - 403 Electoral votes. He might flip Arizona or Mississippi or Louisiana + almost all battleground states.

But that will not fix our broken government.

We will still need to fix the most basic of problems:

1: How we select our governing officials and minimize influence of special interest and big money and

2: Fix the electoral process.

See my blog. If we take away just one electoral vote from each state and give them only 1 state electoral vote instead of two as we do now, this would have resolved 2 of 3 instances since the civil war where the popular vote candidate did not win the Electoral college.

Joan,

Obama will win by 403 Electoral votes. Arizona and GA will flip + battleground + North Dakota.

The pollsters have under-sampled and underestimated voter turnout. He'll get 53% - 58% of the general population. Pollsters have also underestimated Bush's negative approval ratings.

But once all this is done, we will still have a broken and severely non-functioning government. And this election just took up TWO YEARS of our time. The players are different, but the problem is still the same. And neither candidate can or will make any real substantive changes to help our governing processes and the intrusions of the government on the citizens of this great country.

Presidents will still feel they have the right to lock up anyone they want for any reason for any amount of time and no trial and no rights.

Congress will continue to not stop or impede the president when he willfully acts against the civil liberties or act against a Judiciary that meddles in presidential elections.

So, I ask you, why do you care who wins the Oval office? This is merely a continuation of the same bad governing process.

17th century philosopher John Locke said that a government that doesn't respect the social contract should be removed and does not deserve the support of the people it governs.

But cuddle up with your pillow on election day and drink your warm cup of Starbucks and find peace in the fact that the Devil is no longer in the White House.

So AKA, tell me how Obamo judicial selections will prevent abuses by the Judiciary against the constitution and stop them from meddling in presidential election? Don't tell me you're naive enough to believe that they will exercise self-restraint.

The issue is not which party or party's philosophy presides and rules the government. The issue is proper checks and balances to prevent abuses from any party against the citizens of the country.

As a matter of fact, having political parties causes even more issues than it solves. And your clamoring for Liberalism and Obama appointees is no better than Republican appointees with their totalitarian tendencies.

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Read the blog. Contact your governor. Demand reform.