Why not? Get movie stars, etc. to commit to be electors and have people vote for them for presidential electors who vote for a specified individual.
It's another way to bypass the establishment politics, which has old fart professionals espousing techniques and organizational forms circa 1980. Hire me and I'll help you grind it out in the Iowa caucuses, blah, blah, blah. Hey, just skip the stupid Iowa caucuses! And New Hampshire. In fact, get in late and go directly to go: super Tuesday, etc. None of the clowns who commit to the absurd primary system that has evolved since 1972 has the imagination or nerve to try anything different. That's one reason they deserve to be outflanked by a novel approach to getting the 270 electoral votes in our dysfunctional presidential election system, which should have been reformed after the most recent debacle: 2000.
So use the huge gap in this process against the establishment. Unfortunately, neither current extreme has any more imagination than the establishment. Tea party types, angry old white people, and occupy fill-in-the blank Egyptian/Libyan wannabee U.S. protesters with no goals are just engaging in self-gratification.
Even without celebrities I have long thought that any election can be won with write-in votes promoted with a website. Now with social media, etc. renegade candidates can threaten the establishment with democracy. Too bad nobody else seems interested in actually changing anything. They just want to make spectacles of themselves.
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