I was appalled by the amount of money spent by all candidates which could be used to reduce our deficit and, more important, help all our needed citizens and educational facilities. I also cannot see the campaign running for over a year. I believe that 3 months would be quite adequate and our candidates could continue doing their jobs instead of constant traveling away from their jobs.

Limit length of time citizens serve in US Congress.

In City of Clewiston currently the city commissioners choose whom the Mayor of Clewiston will be.It is prudent that the People of Clewiston get to vote for this position . They and only they should choose who represents them.

Limit length of time citizens serve in US Congress.

Don't give a break for Congress until they do their job.

I have listened to Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck and they create hateful and discouraging ideas and points of view. They make their money in trying to divide the country and create division. While everyone should be able to give their point of view, the other side needs to be heard so different points of view are heard and falsehoods corrected.

The electoral college was necessary when our country was founded. Now, with the widespread availability of electronic communication, the people of the United States should be able to vote on the basis of one vote for each person. That way, the "battleground state" debaucle would go away.

Congress is gridlocked and even simple ideas cannot get through the legislative process. Our legislators frequently "poison" good bills with unrelated items to either get bad ideas through the process or to prevent good ideas from moving forward. Lets change the constitution so that all items in a single piece of legislation must be "reasonably related".

The electoral college was established to deal with areas that were hard to get to. Now it is an anomaly. We have not elected a President, we have elected Electoral College representatives. The election for President should be based on a majority of the total vote, not on the Electoral College.

Voters were presented with Propositions this year that were unclear,

We must not tolerate blatant suppression of minority vote by elected politicians. We should petition for the impeachment of Governor Scott as well as the republican legislators who changed the voting law to eliminate early voting on the Sunday before election day, which was the biggest single day for black voter turn out in 2008. Next, we should petition both the US Dept. of Justice to investigate, and the US Congress to hold hearings through their broad subpoena power.

I have been in the highest income bracket and I think the wealthy should indeed pay a larger share of taxes. However I have a problem with our absurd tax code, wasting everyone's time every year. My federal income tax return last year was almost an inch thick, cost me hundreds in accountant's fees, and took many hours of record keeping. Yet the government certainly had all the information already! Deductions should be eliminated: for example the mortgage interest deduction encourages people to stay in debt and favors the rich with bigger mortgages; better instead to have a lower tax rate than have to report mortgage interest every year.