can we end political parties

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I seem to recal in my high school history classes that we use to vote for president by popular vote, ||Oh, it may not have been called that, but the idea was the voters voted for their favorite candidate and whoever received the most votes was president, the receiver of the second most votes was the vice president. What a concept. The party sytem would not be needed. There would not be a party line any longer, just a candidates beliefs and intentions. I admit counting the votes might take longer, but I for one would rather wait a little while for the news to announce the projected winner and get the person the majority of ppl feel will make the best president and vice president. Just imagine a country where our president didn't have to appease his political party to stay in office, but appease US the ppl to retain his seat. I think it would be necessary to enforce rules to be able to run for the office. As in, well, hell I don't have it all figured out, but maybe we could get some good ideas going here on how to make this work. The politicians would be beholden to us, not the party who pushed,pulled and dragged them into office. I'm not at all sure on the money issues that would be involved. It might be harder to raise the money to run for office.But then again it might lower the cost of running for office also. If the parties aren't involved the candidates would have less to spend and the media would have to charge less for ads because the revenue for the ads would completely dry up if the candidates couldn't meet the exhorbitant rates. Maybe we could actually get the candidates out on the circuit again instead of relying on the media to get their views out. Any ideas?