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Here's my quick fixes:
Eliminate incumbent political parties.
Anyone who wants on the ballot who can get, say, 5% of the voters to sign a petition for him/her can be on the ballot.
No preferential placement for any existing party on the ballot, make it random.
Eliminate political TV ads. All of them. Instead, force the TV stations and radio states to give candidates equal time to say their piece, and give every candidate an opportunity to debate the others.
It used to be that media had a public duty to be informative in exchange for their excusive access to a scarce resource (broadcast frequencies). The media seems to have completely forgotten that.
But you can't cure stupid. As long as there are suckers who will vote for Arnold, there are people who will market themselves to those people.
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