I love your perspectives here. Very reasonable. I voted for that guy too, but I lost a ton of respect for him (never had full respect anyway) when he refused to recognize the absolutely clear fact that Ed Snowden is a whistleblower and not a traitor.

Anyway, the real answer to electoral issues is Score voting (see http://rangevoting.org/ ).

Also, since you're interested in economic democracy, have you seen the in-progress stuff at Snowdrift.coop ?