I hear what you are saying, but after the reports from Ohio and Philadephia after the 2012 election, I’m not real sure of the public’s “power of the ballot box”...
Let's be like Paul the Apostle at the end of our lives: "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day" (2 Tim 4:7-8).
:-)