Letter: Shorten political campaigns, please

One thing has become more obvious than ever, following the presidential campaign, and that is the length and cost of the primary/election campaigns.

If it takes an amendment to the Constitution to achieve a limit to the length of time and money spent, so be it. Do whatever it takes.

I, for one, became so weary of watching and listening to the vitriol that I finally had to stop watching the television, because they kept repeating the same things over and over, ad nauseam.

Seems to me that a couple of weeks for the primaries, debates included, would be enough. The presidential campaign should take no more than a month. If the candidates can’t get their points across in an intelligent manner in that length of time, then they are undeserving of the highest office in the country.

This story was originally published November 17, 2016 at 2:28 PM with the headline "Letter: Shorten political campaigns, please."