A succinct article describing the strangle hold our current electoral process has on us. The article describes factually why the electoral process favors incumbents and (depending on what part of the country you live in) certain political philosophies.

Once again, I say this. So long as you have the system you have you will keep on getting the same results. If you want to change the results, then you have to change the system.

In the Bible, there's a passage about throwing seed on the ground and where the ground is rocky, the seed will not come up. (I'm sure someone out there can quote it for me. I'm no expert.)

The point is, running candidates in the current system against established candidates is throwing your seed on rocky ground. If you want a high yield then you have to prepare the ground first. You don't hope the seed will germinate and then prepare the ground. Things don't work like that.

Here's a link to the article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/opinion/19silver.html?th&emc=th