that is a very good question when this country was first put together that is how it was done and there were more candidates to chose from the person with the most votes was president and the next person was vice-president.It was a way to keep everything balanced. Perhaps we should return to that process but in order to do that there must be a law that is put into place for that.When Presidential election laws are changed it is something that has to take place in congress.Do you really think that's gonna happen the way things are now? The Presidential election is all about getting power and there are a lot of people who want that power.