No doubt about that, but the masses are asses and don’t bring any critical thinking into the mix. Vote your hormones, vote your faith, vote only your number 1 issue and this is what you get. The dems wanted McCain because he is the one they can beat easily, hell, all they have to do is insult him and he’ll go into a campaign killing, foaming at the mouth tirade. We need to fix the primary process so that it isn’t driven by polls, image, amount of money spent or how early you enter the campaign. The primarys are spread out and make it easy for fraud, manipulation and polling to drive results in subsequent primaries. One set national primary just before the conventions with a limitation on primary campaigning time and money spent and one, real debate opportunity. Make their policies and proposals for the country the focus and not how good they look on camera or how well they respond to BS pre-canned “debate” questions.
I cherry picked the portion of your comment that I posted but your entire post is well worth reading and your solution should be adopted. Thanks!!