General voting for President has always been an absurd idea. It's impossible for most people to make an informed choice on who's best for such a role—it is guar

General voting for President has always been an absurd idea. It's impossible for most people to make an informed choice on who's best for such a role—it is guaranteed to turn into a propaganda and showmanship contest. That's why we have the electoral college. Unfortunately, that was poorly-designed and fell to games-playing pretty much immediately, so never actually worked the way it was supposed to, and now we're stuck with the downsides of that and the downsides of a kind of weird not-quite popular election for the position, without the benefits of either.