The Fountain

Technology Powers the Pump

Wilson’s Fountain starts with a political committee poised to become the National Party. This committee is responsible for developing and publishing the free and equal nominating system. It will become a National Party once it enters candidates into Federal elections.

The National Party will utilize a technology platform to reform the nominating process. The Party has no ideology and commits to always deploy an equal number of campaigns in red and blue districts during each election cycle.

It will adhere to all federal election laws but will otherwise not resemble a traditional political party.

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A system of checks and balances

A political committee of local constituents runs each nominating process. This Nominating Committee customizes the contest to each district and assures prospective nominees follow the rules.

The National Party validates the results of all contests. The Super PAC relies on this qualification to allot funds for the nominees’ general election campaigns.

The Super PAC in Wilson’s Fountain is atypical. It does not assign campaign funds until after the nominating process is over and the people have chosen their candidate. This is how Wilson’s Fountain removes strings from campaign funds.

Upon becoming official candidates for federal office, winners are required to open a bank account and form candidate committees. Party rules will compel the candidate to return any remaining funds to the Nominating Committee at the end of the general election cycle.

These committees, working together, establish the system of checks and balances Wilson envisioned. When elected officials prevail in a free and equal contest, their only incentive is to broadly represent, otherwise they are fully vulnerable in the next election cycle to someone who will.

Why Wilson’s Fountain Works

Ideologies fall on spectrums. Spectrums placed on populations tend to produce normal distributions, otherwise known as bell-shaped curves.

The current system uses money and a weighted primary to push representation away from the center of the bell curve in gerrymandered districts.

The fair contest always generates a result at, or very near, the center of those curves; the unfair one almost never does.

Wilson’s Fountain also works because technology facilitates a larger field with systematic elimination over multiple rounds. And as in sports, when you open the competition and make it fair, it encourages participation with the best emerging.

An accessible, easy-to-use system is positioned to generate many more votes than the public primary.

A district with a nominee produced by Wilson’s Fountain features a candidate who always wins with more than 50% of the constituent endorsements, and is statistically more popular than the major party nominee.

Most voters aren’t ruby red or navy blue.

A Moneyball way to change the system.

Whereas traditional parties use data to target you with attack ads and guilt you into donating, Wilson’s Fountain utilizes analytics in game-changing fashion. Success depends on uncovering voters, not donors.

Resources are applied to find the districts where planks of the major party platforms are misaligned, or too extreme, for their demographic. Wilson’s Fountain relies on the free and equal process to yield a nominee who resolves the imbalance and is then poised to win in the general election.

Fresh and Viable Candidates

Running for Congress will no longer mean becoming beholden to donors to win re-election. More people will be encouraged to run for office, raising the bar and improving the quality of representation.

Winning an election won’t be about exploiting wealth, leveraging a family name, or hijacking a national issue. Prospective nominees will need to earn their votes.