Secondly, other vital news reports conecrning local, national and international events are ignored because the reporters must go wherever all the candidates go for so many months. The Fourth Estate should have the opportunity to uncover and report vital events from all other sources. What have we missed that needs to reported?

Thirdly, the U. S. Senators who are in the presidential race spend all their time campaigning,and cannot fulfill their Senate repsponsibilites to theri constituents, as they were elected to do.

It will never happen, but I believe the solution to this nightmare is for both the National parties’ leaders ( both Democratic and Republican National Committees) should decide to move ALL of the primaries back many months, perhaps to April or May or June. Then there would be only a few months until their summer national conventions,and finaly the two chosen presientiald na vie presidential candiates of both parties could campaign in earnest. Great Britain allows only six weeks for campaigns to change the representatives and national leaders in government. This is much more sane and logical. Yes, the U.S is larger, so some greater amount of time is needed, but not the two years and the chaos of the present system.

Fourthly, the huge amounts of money The exhaustive efforts of all candidates to raise the many millions, $35,000,000 to $60,000,ooo PER CANDIDATE would not force them to look beyond individual contributors. Once a candidate accepts corporate funds, their issues, their loylaties, etc become tainted, and we, the citizens issues’ become less important. We all suffer.

Yes, the nightmare of the 2008 primaries and caucuses wears everyone down. And what is likely for 2012? Worse, right?