Is this a UK based website?

[DeistPaladin]

It certainly works better than the USA model.

Give us the parliamentary system and we'd have a new prime minister every two years. We'd give the Italians a run for their money as to how many governments we could collapse in a single decade.

Seriously, every sitting president since WWII with the exception of W Bush loses control of Congress just two years into his first term. The only reason W escaped that pattern is he benefited from 9/11. Reagan lost control of Congress after his mid-term. Then he won re-election in the biggest landslide in our history. Then he lost control of Congress two years later. Clinton lost control of Congress after his first mid-term. Then he won re-election in a landslide. Then he was handed a defeat in the following mid-term (if memory serves, I may be wrong about that one). We are just so bi-polar as a nation. It was really a good idea our founders had to create a government designed to put the breaks artificially on changes.

If we just changed two things, our system would work much better:

1. Ban all paid political advertisement. Get money out of politics. As it stands now, money talks, the individual voter walks.
   
2. Way past time to jettison the Electoral College. It made sense in the day of messages carried by horses. In the days of fiberoptics, not so much.
   

By the way, it's our Electoral College and the winner-take-all in each state that is part of what shuts out 3rd parties. Progressive Americans have no representation in our government. The best we can do is vote for the lesser evil: moderate conservatives like Obama.