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[HydrogenBond]

I always thought a better way to elect the president would be sort of a national election bee, based on the format of the spelling bee. Here is how it goes. At the beginning of the process, anyone who qualifies, by the consitution, in age and citizenship is able to run. The first level of competion begins at the smallest voting district level. So across the country there may be 1000's of preliminaries going at the same time, allowing thousands of interested citizens to run for president. The process is more one of ideas ,than the traditional marketing, sort of like the spelling bee, where there are objective things to compare.

The winner of each preliminary, teams up with the five other finalists to form a team. This team will then compete with other election district teams, for the city district championships. The teams give more ideas and minds to help prime their champion, with regional pride helping the team to put aside differences, since they goal is president. It is sort of like a sports teams, where there are differences on the field, but once they play another team, they are all working to win the game.

The winner of the city district championship forms a team with the other five city district finalists. These go to the city finals, etc. The president who results, forms his cabinet from the top finalists. In a nut shell, this is a tough president school, taking four years to complete. The advancement of good ideas, so the advancing teams can be competitive in tougher and tougher competitions, creates a president that reflects the best ideas of all the people.

As far as elected official who wish to participate, they do not have to enter the competition until the level of their office. A senator would not have to compete until the state finals. The existing president can wait until the nationals. Or they can get in earier, for the extra practice. This would be a prime-time reality TV show, where the people would be entertained and learn. It would also give bragging rights, allowing thousands of citizens to to say "I ran for president". Anyone, left or right brain, who becomes the grand champion, would have the support of the people. After he is sworn in preparations begin for the next four year president school. This will never happen since it is not based on partisian politics.