For an 2007 book I wrote about women voters, I traveled to 20 states and talked to hundreds of women of all political stripes. And the thing I heard most often, in all regions of the country and from women of every age, race, tax bracket and political leaning, was that the toxicity of the process was such a turnoff that they could barely stand to tune in at all.

Thanks to the unlimited money pouring into that process — and funding negative ads — as a result of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, it’s only gotten worse.

We have a system that rewards, and maybe even requires candidates to take shots many of the women we’d most like to support want no part of.

What can those of us who do not sit on the Supreme Court do? Stop supporting the extremes and rewarding negative attacks, that’s what.