Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna

Regardless of who is elected, Figmo, I don't think anyone's faith should take a hit as the result. Our system is supposed to be a democracy and whichever candidate is elected will be the result of a process. The majority will dictate the result.

Now if you want to lose faith in the process by which our election is being run this time around, I'd be right there with you. The virtually unlimited amounts of campaign money from special interests, super PAC's, endless negative advertising, proportional voting and a year-long campaign has lead to clearly unqualified or candidates, some with frighteningly narrow ideologies, running and remaining in the race for no other reason than to damage other candidates and confusing the electorate, I'll admit that I've ALREADY lost faith in that process.

We'll wind up with someone being elected as POTUS. But whether the process used to elect that person attracted the best and brightest candidates, and resulted in a fair and accurate vote by a well-informed electorate is seriously in doubt. The process is what we should lose faith in. I pretty much already have.