General Elections are Too Long, and Too Expensive: the Greatest Government Waste of All
Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Every four years American voters choose our president. At least that’s what the media and politicians would like you to believe. The truth is, states choose the man or woman who will lead our country, and that will remain a fact as long as the unconstitutional Electoral College exists. That’s not what this article is all about. The first presidential election I remember was in 1956 when Dwight D. Eisenhower won a second term. I was 10 years old. Richard Nixon did not sign into law the right for 18-year-olds to vote until 1971. I was 22 in 1968 when I was eligible to vote in my first general election. I was a senior in high school when the only great president in modern history was murdered in Dallas on November 22, 1963. In 1968 I was excited. I strongly supported Robert Kennedy. However on a summer’s day in Los Angeles he was taken from us by a man named Sirhan Sirhan. I couldn’t believe that our country had lost two of the greatest men in our country’s history...