Originally Posted by BABRAM
I do have a slight different concern considering the electoral college verses a purely popular election process than my peers, but not enough to see the change as necessary yet. However, I want to bring up another aspect that I think needs reforming. The one thing that really bothers me about our current election rules is that if a person is elected twice to office, they are not permitted a third run (Roosevelt being the last three term President). I think we could at least consider that after being elected twice, the possibility. As a nation we should be able to make better judgements based on that person's past performance. Admittedly, as a nation, we sometime don't really see the effectiveness of a presidency, good or bad, until years down the road. I would propose a mandatory sitting out for one election, after two consecutive terms. By then if an ex-President wants to put his hat back into the ring for a third time, then I see no reason we shouldn't consider his electability. It only benefits us, we the people, and that's why we have elections in an attempt to put the person in power that we think will do the best job.
Bobby