My experience over the years working both inside the Capitol and out on the campaign trail, has taught me that at least half of the American public is quite ignorant of politics, elections, and public policy. Most have a vague recollection from their high school civics classes of the structure of the American political system: two major parties, a legislature, courts, and that they somehow all fit together. At some point this disconnected segment of the American electorate was instilled with the notion that there is something wrong with partisan allegiances. To belong to a party and to subscribe to...