I had a dream once where I personally got to change the way everyone votes. I honestly think it's a genius idea, I know it will never happen but I though I'd share.
Instead of the two parties each choosing 1 candidate, I had the two parties choose two candidates.
Then when you went to the poll booth instead of picking the name of the person you'd like to be president, you were asked questions.
For example Question 1 would be something like "Do you think that gay marriage should be legal in the United States?" and the answer options would reflect each candidates stance. Answers might say something like 1- Yes 2- No 3- I do not support gay marriage but I do think civil unions or another form of commitment that is not called marriage should be put into place. Then each question would have the answer options of "I do not know or I do not have an opinion on this topic" and "I do not support any of these ideas".
That sample question is pretty simple, but other questions would reflect not just social issues but things like "Which of these ideas for the Countries Budget do you like best?" and "which of these foreign affairs policies would you most like to see come into play?"
The reason I am such a fan of this is because then people aren't voting based on skin color, gender, or social issues alone. They are instead putting in which of the policies and ideas they support and then at the end they can be given an option between candidates names. Each time you click on a candidates policy they are given a "point". Whoever has the most points represents the most ideas that Americans as a whole have instead a few hot button ones.
Just an idea.
