Lawrence Lessig on East-Coast vs West-Coast code

While I do think that e.g. the US presidential campaign is ridiculously long, I don't think officially curtailing it would help, because this kind of campaigning is (officially) not done by the incumbent. Actually the incumbent traveling back to his/her constituency for the "grassroot civil forum" might make him/her look good, because he/she is listening for the people.

I watched the original talk, but it doesn't answer my concerns. On the other hand it introduces an other problem: in Lessing's system the candidate who can mobilize the most donors will have the most money. The problem is: extremist are easier to mobilize (most people are lazy, the more committed someone, the more likely to give away money), so this system would skew the candidates to more extreme positions.