If I were to be elected to any kind of Federal post (President, House, Senate) I would work for increasingly regionalized governance - a/k/a the devolution of power, or decentralization. By breaking up the concentration of power in Washington DC, I think we could make the system more responsive to local needs.
There's a flip side to this, though - such decentralization could only succeed if it were accompanied by a parallel and proportionate increase in awareness and responsibility on the part of the more local units of governance. Without this, devolution leads us back to the time of squabbling fiefdoms.
For more on this idea, check this out:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/10/opinion/10alperovitz.html
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