I am tired of hearing the sound bites coming from my home state of PA in which voters declare, "I'm excited that my vote matters this year."

Why? Because EVERYONE'S vote should matter both in the primaries and general election.

I was visiting with a friend from Michigan last weekend and, of course, her vote mattered naught toward the primaries because of bizarre scheduling rules.

Why, if we are capable of a national general election, are these insane random-dates assigned to various states for primaries? And then voters in "follow-up" states are led to base decisions on stupid clips (and even less substantive "debates") hosted by our rapidly-disintigrating-into-full-blown-tabloidism media.

We need to have a NATIONAL primary day. Let VOTERS decide who their "team" will be, not "superdelegates" and other backroom dealmakers. The conventions can still happen, but they could be for team-building, workshopping, and other productive activities to get the foot soldiers of each party revved-up and prepared for the general election.

Then, we have the debacle of the electoral college. Enough! One person, one vote. That is democracy. Right now...I have no idea what the hell you call our system. Any suggestions for names?

Right now I'm leaning toward "The Greased Palm and Sound Bite Express" Suggestions are welcomed and will be considered by committee, then the leaders from that meeting will be brough before a renaming caucus, and ratified by ANOTHER committee of delegates.