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At age 74, I have voted for every president since Ike.  Although I am a registered Republican,
I voted for candidates like JFK because I thought he would meke the better President of the two offered.  I did not vote for LBJ as I felt he would always be 99% politician, and only 1% an intelligent President.  I start my post with this paragraph to show that I believe in trying to cast my vote for the candidate who will follow the Constitution, who will support the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and who comes closest to being a Christian and a patriot.

I am a patient man, and the electorate of America has chosen a President elect that I thought had zero qualifications to hold that office, and more reasons by far than any time in American history why he should never have been a candidate in the first place.  When I learned the election process for a U.S. President in sophomore civics class, I was shocked that delegates from the two parties would meet as the electoral college to discuss and select each of the candidates that were supported by the parties to compete in the primaries.  If you wish to promote hybrid vigor and genetic strength in animal husbandry, you do not limit yourself to a small gene pool for your breeding stock.  So why would we use a system that restricts our most important elected officials to a selection pool that are primarily best known to the long term party members who have the status and power by means of family and seniority to guide the electoral process to it's final conclusion.   What happened to the promised "by the people, and for the people" language by our founding fathers?  We have a gene pool of over 300 million American citizens less those that are too young or for other reasons do not meet the eligibility requirements to be President.