"With only a little more than half of the voting age population actually voting, the system is nowhere near
working. Is it possible that if more choices were given for President and other offices, more people would go out and vote? "     

    Why is it that most of the people only vote for one of the two major political parties in the U.S. today? There are plenty of other parties like the Constitution, Green, and Libertarian parties that run as well.
The Census Bureau reported that only sixty-four percent of people eighteen and older voted in the 2004 Bush vs. Kerry election.

           Could the two-party system be the problem? There are over 30 percent of the voting populous that are disillusioned. This is a huge number when compared to the voting of other countries. Eighty-six countries have averaged higher than sixty-four percent in their voter turnout since 1945. This needs to be changed. The one way that it could be changed is through the promotion of being more than a two-party system.

           Imagine the 2012 Presidential Debates. Senator McCain or Senator Obama would not just be sitting against the typical rival, but also newcomers to the debates. Ralph Nader possibly could be one of the men that would be on that stage.         

   C-Span 2 covered the Third Party Presidential debate between Independent Ralph Nader and Constitution Party candidate Chuck Baldwin. That's great to see, but practically no one knew about it. Besides C-Span, who else covered it? I didn't see it talked about on MSNBC, CNN, or Fox
News.
           As much as I applaud C-Span 2 for the debate, there was still some problems with it. One, I did not see Senators McCain or Obama there. It is time for those candidates to compete against the other candidates that are running. But by ignoring these other candidates, it makes Nader and Baldwin less visible, or what the Democrats and Republicans really want, not visible at all. They need to be more combative. Don't worry about getting dirty. Politics is a very dirty business and sometimes it can get dirty.
Senator McCain didn't mind getting dirty calling into question Senator Obama's relationship with Reverend Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers. It certainly has not hurt Obama, but attacks by the Independent could do something that would be more important: exposure.
           Independents lack exposure. On the local ballot, did you know there was a Libertarian candidate for our representative, Gary W. Hoover, Sr., in the U.S. Senate? I didn't find out until I saw a sample ballot
online. There needs to be a strong volunteer base to help out, especially on a state and local level.
           I cannot express more than that, as a whole, something needs to be done to fix the election system. With only a little more than half of the voting age population actually voting, the system is nowhere near
working. Is it possible that if more choices were given for President and other offices, more people would go out and vote? Possible. What needs to be done to accomplish all of this would be a massive revamp of the system on both the end of the public and in voting regulations such as the debates.