>What this nation really needs is one political party - the Republican Party.

What we need is to get rid of these political religions all together. I have a plan to do this, it requires providing more offices to hold.

I did the math last night. The average population of a sate is 30X what it was in 1775*. However, the number of senators for each state has remained at a constant 2 since 1775.

Look at the last election race in Minnesota. 3 million people wanted Coleman and 2 million people wanted Mondale.

This is a huge number of people that are not being represented, because its a winner take all election. There is no reason for this mentality.

When you think about it, technologically, we are moving into an epoch where we are almost capable of completely removing representivies. For example, I typically despise Television, but what happened if we were allowed to be polled on issues through an internet connection while watching TV?

This is a long ways off, but maybe less than a century away. However, in the mean time, I think an elegant solution to many of our governments problems would be to increase the number of US Senators from 2 per state to somewhere between 10 and 100 per state.

We also need to insure that the POTUS is doing his job by administering the country and representing us in organizations like the UN. I think the President's job has evolved into something more powerful than the original job description and we actively need to change that back.

* My numbers
2000 Pop of Approx. 280 Million / 50 states
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1775 Pop of Approx. 2.5 Million / 13 states