Major changes are in order

What’s happened to our values and good old common sense priorities? How could we allow the media to shape the campaigns and help create the circus that’s now going on in Florida?

Why was a very important election treated like a Super Bowl? Are we so into instant everything that we can’t allow time for all the ballots to be counted before declaring the outcome of the election? Is it OK for the East Coast to report their election results before the polls close on the West Coast? Has our complacency concerning actual facts gotten us into this mess? If so, we deserve to be led around by the Hollywood types, the liberal press and the overpaid talking heads and suffer the consequences.

The stability of this country requires that these issues be corrected on a non-partisan basis with some real responsible changes legislated concerning all future elections.

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