The way I see it, if the people want to vote someone OUT of office, there has to be someone to vote IN to office. Part of the problem on all levels of politics for too long is the lack of choices to vote for. I have felt for a long time that anyone who was smart enough and of good enough character to hold office and be an effective representative of the people who elected them was also smart enough to stay out of politics. Eventually someone is going to have to step up and be willing to go into office to do the things that are right for the people.
Maybe the the best thing would be to do away with elections altogether, fill public offices like jury duty, just draw names out of a pool of eligible people. If people had to try and come up with excuses to try and get out of serving instead of spending 1000 times what the job pays to try to get the job they might do a better job. Yes, sometimes you would get folks that weren't as smart or as honest as other times, but it probably wouldn't be much worse than it is now. JMHO