I have beef with the College

Current Problems with how President's are elected:

• over representation of small states in College
• Because electoral votes are the sum of seats in the House and Senate, states with small enough populations such as to have more votes in the college from Senate seats than House seats have disproportional representation.  Wyoming has around 500,000 residents and three electoral votes.  California has about 36,000,000 residents and 53 votes.  Every 167,000 Wyoming residents get a vote where as every 679,000 Californians get a vote.  So the Wyoming resident is 4 times as powerful as a Californian.  How equal is that?  Less people should have less power.  The college fails to properly represent heavily populated states.
• Media factor in frontloading

• The Iowa and New Hampshire primaries are the first and most covered of them all.  The results of these two primaries will mold the rest of the campaign by directing media attention to the winners and away from the losers. Because of the power media has, coverage of a candidate is everything.  So in effect, the MEDIA determines who gets free coverage and essentially limits the ballots to who they want in the earliest stages of campaigning.  For two states to have that much influence on national politics is absurd. Each state fails to represent the entire country because they are not the entire country so for media to determine future coverage of candidates off of those two primaries is comparable to censoring who they will allow the nation to see and learn about off of insufficient information.
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• above, one can see where money and attention is focused.  It's all about getting those nominations from the MEDIA by winning the early primaries.  California is practically ignored and it has a massive population.  So now its about the media instead of the people.  
• Primary elections useful, caucus is just first media frenzy focused on pitting one party against another
• Who can get the most viewers? Who has the biggest party? Who has the most media support and coverage? Democrats? Republicans?  Really, the announcing of party nominees is consuming too much time on my tv screen. It's a made for tv event that takes much more money and time than it needs to.
• winning candidates are successful because they can play the game, not because they are necessarily the right choice for President
• This relates back to media.  To be successful, candidates must be able to manipulate the media and play the publicity game.  Having a good platform will only take one so far.  It is the ability to gain attention and stir emotion that wins votes and in the end, elections.  Many voters vote from recognition of name as opposed to knowledge of platforms so why waste time on putting out your politics when you should be putting out your name.

My remedy for the joke of American Politics:

• encourage objective reporting instead of opinionated or "filler" stories that create all the high school drama we see on tv 
• we can't censor media or ban opinions but are the stations doing us a disfavor by not covering each candidate equally? possibly.  Or they could be saving us time and them money. But it is true that the power held in coverage is directed to specific candidates too early and too often used in an abusive manner. Forcing candidates to cater to reporters is disrupting the campaigning process by taking away from the visits to the people.  What good are the visits if a station will highlight or misconstrue statements to ruin a career after the candidate was once in the lead?
• have a National Primary instead of state primaries to eliminate frontloading that kills a candidates chances early in the game
• This will take away the possibility of one state's mind being changed based on another state's results.  Basically, this is a way of making voting private on a state level, a way of having everyone close their eyes when they vote so they can't be swayed by peer opinions.
• Simplify the caucus
• this should be more of a press release than a three hour drama special
• states that are smaller have less people so they should have less representation.  The power is unfair to highly populated areas.
• raise the total number of electoral college votes so that distribution can be determined solely on population in states and not be effected by the Senate seats.

Information gathered from Kelly's lectures, FairVote.org, Kelly's presentations, and what my heart has to say.