I think there are many incremental improvements that could be made to the US political system that would enable future, more wholesale improvements. I'd love to

I think there are many incremental improvements that could be made to the US political system that would enable future, more wholesale improvements. I'd love to see someone like Mr. Gore champion the cause of instant runoff voting / ranked choice voting. IRV/RCV effectively removes the risk of supporting candidates that aren't already hooked into (and beholden to) the existing political fundraising machinery. What's better, is that IRV/RCV could be adopted without constitutional amendments or other up-front, wholesale changes to our system of government. I'd like to imagine that, with the spoiler effect removed, data-savvy third parties would be able to most effectively use the Internet to increase their votes-to-dollars ratios. In fact, I'd hope that intelligence in this arena would be a filter function. Of course this doesn't solve everything--money would still largely dictate candidates' levels of exposure. The difference would be that people could stop using party affiliation (and by proxy money raising potential) as a pre-filter for candidates.