Nothing to do with the election, but maybe something to look at about the mag problem. A friend of mine who collects the other green tractor and does mag work as a side line says the biggest thing that causes heating in mags is using resistor (carbon core) wires and/or resistor plugs.  He told me when we were discussing this this summer that one of the major plug makers plugs are all resistor now even if they aren't marked assuch, but I can't make the name come into my noggin right now.