The past 30 years have seen a large transition to the office of the POTUS. The position itself has become lost in money. It takes a few billion to elect someone to the highest of offices. It is a shell game in a broken two party system. The elections have become to long, and the leadership is to compromised by the time they take office due to financial donations to their campaign.
Maybe it is time for a change. A Parliamentary Democracy would better represent the people, versus the electoral college and our current system of electing a president. Parliamentary Democracies do not have a presidential election at all. The ruling party elects a Prime Minister, and the Prime Minister answers to the entire legislative body and the people.
A Parliamentary process brings the elections back to the local level. Voter turnout would improve because each congressional district is in play. Currently, voter turnout for the Office of the POTUS has declined to 50% of the population voting. One could conclude that citizens do not feel invested in the election process for President anymore. It has been in steady decline for multiple decades. The media and political parties consider a no vote as laziness. It is actually the opposite. People feel like their vote does not matter anymore. This is a dangerous precedent in a democracy.
Recent presidential elections had strange anomalies such as one candidate earning more votes in a district than registered voters. Some have one precincts by 100%. We reduce the risk of this happening by returning voter control to the people. A Parliamentary process might be what the United States needs to reinvigorate the principles
of the Constitution, even if it means amending the electoral process for President of the United States. 
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