Because of the grotesquely swollen place the presidency now occupies
in the nation’s governance and consciousness, we are never not
preoccupied with presidential campaigning. The Constitution’s Framers
would be appalled. The nation reveres the Framers, but long ago
abandoned the presidential selection process they considered so
important that they made it one of the four national institutions
created by the Constitution. Hence the significance of the Republican
National Committee’s suggested reforms for the 2016 process.

University
of Virginia professor James Ceaser says the four national institutions
the Framers created were Congress, the Supreme Court, the presidency and
the presidential selection system based on the Electoral College. The
fourth, wherein the selection of candidates and election of a president
by each state’s electors occurred simultaneously — they were the same
deliberation — soon disappeared. 

Responding to the fact that the
2012 nomination process was ruinously protracted, the RNC suggests
reforms that might, like many improvements, make matters worse. This is
because of a prior “improvement” — campaign finance reform.   For more and the conclusion: Here.