In Need of a New electoral process?

Ladies and Gentlemen,
I believe our electoral process is a joke. Based on lies and deceit. The more you can scare Americans to your side the better you do.

I think our electoral process should be different. I believe candidates should be tested on there knowledge of the past in concert with the position they seek.
For instance, The president should have learned from all the lessons of the past. They should know every action of leaders of the past and what there respective results were.
Governors would have to demonstrate good knowledge of the mistakes of past Governors.
Forget telling me of your opponents past disgressions, Instead demonstrate your vast knowledge of the position you seek.
Only if we learn from the past will we be prepared for the future. If we ignore the past it is bound to repeat itself(Vietnam anyone).

Just need to do away with the electoral college system for the presidency and have term limits for legislators. Then its up to the voters to try and make the right decisions on electing candidates to office.

Thats just my point. We don't make good decisions as a whole anymore. We've become too lazy to research very far into any one candidate. Don't get me wrong, There are a number of people who actually research there choices. I just think that number is far too low. Then subtract for the informed but misguided. what are we left with?? 5% maybe 10% of Americans who actually know and do right?
Not good enough for me. I think our selection process should be more scientific and accurate. A popularity contest is really better left to high school class president.
Besides just that, we support our elections very little. By that I mean, It should be a national holiday. Hello, can you think of a stronger American tradition than voting?? Why are the working stiffs getting the hard end of voting? While business owners can leave there manager in charge.
I work very hard to survive(40-50hrs/wk). No down time for me, I have a daughter to support. I can say without a doubt that some of my voting hardships were caused by having to work all day. So from my standpoint, I'm very worried. Truth be told, I don't have too much time to research all my politics. I'd prefer knowing that the most knowledgeable Candidates are making the decisions with my support.

You're in dreamland if you think any elected official is going to do the "right" thing for his constituents. There is no one running for public office that has any ethics. Its just about the money. Its always about the money in the US. If they're not a pig before they get elected they shortly will be.
I'm a big believer in the intiative and referendum process. At least there the actual citizen will have a say in how things are done.

A dreamland indeed,
"Running" for office is exactly what I'm against. It should be...
"Testing" for office.
I'd be much more comfortable knowing that the candidate that scored the highest and knows the most would be making decisions.
Just look at American society today, No (good)show competes with WWE. That tells me that more than half TV watching citizens, get there tv kicks from....well....I'm not gonna go there yet.
Second, All TV shows that survive, Must show some skin. Maybe on paper, we like to sound civilized, but the truth?? We are still un-civilized in the head as a whole. Few and far between do I see the truly civilized(for our era) and for the most part, its not from Americans.