People will still be irrational. It would simply move the irrationality to idol-worship, identifying with one candidate. I'm starting to believe that election

People will still be irrational. It would simply move the irrationality to idol-worship, identifying with one candidate. I'm starting to believe that elections are more random than one would think, and odd things decide elections (see for example the Spanish elections where a politician's stance after a terrorist attack by blaming it on ETA completely shifted the election - if the attack had happened another day or said politician had blamed it on Al Quaeda instead he'd have won) I recall some interesting studies that said that random selection of leaders worked better than deliberate selection: "Evidence That Random Selection of Leaders Can Enhance Group Performance" http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WYH-46NXKGF-3&_user=10&_coverDate=09%2F30%2F1998&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_origin=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1527445910&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=1cbdb361856b43b50464b59afe84ead6&searchtype=a http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi... we cannot rationally assess each candidate, so we turn to substitutes. If it isn't the political party, something else will have to do (his smile, demeanor, clothing, whatever). I've seen elected officials whom I expected to be bad perform better than expected, and people whom I had big expectations turn out to be busts.