<presumption alert> Does the U.S., with its Electoral College, really want to go there? This strikes me as throwing stones from a glass McMansion. </presumpt

<presumption alert> Does the U.S., with its Electoral College, really want to go there? This strikes me as throwing stones from a glass McMansion. </presumption alert> More to the point: unhindered, direct-democracy is rarely a good system as it tends to devolve into "majority rule". The case for appointed officials is neither new nor in and of itself undemocratic.