Ok, I know this is probably going to sound naive or insane or maybe even stupid but let me just throw this thought out there.  Instead of the delegate/super-delegate (and don’t even get me started on the Electoral College) business that we are being forced to sort of participate in, yeah, instead of all that mularky, how about this instead?  How about every single American of voting age votes for their candidate of choice and, when all the voting is done, whoever gets the most votes…

...wins.

Is that so crazy?  I mean, that’s actually how I thought it worked when I was growing up.  I didn’t realize that there were “powerful” decision makers that could vote against what the common folk decided thereby rendering their (our) votes meaningless.  I didn’t realize that there were “powerful” decision makers that could declare that millions of people’s votes don’t count because some bureaucratic morons decided to break the rules and vote too early.  I didn’t realize that you didn’t have to have more votes than the other guy to get “elected” into office.

Of the People, By the People and For the People, right?  Yeah, not as much as I once thought, I’m afraid.