on one day, which is one of the original ideas i had, let's shorten it, but then we would lose people like president obama if he were up against someone who was self-funding. i would like to see a day off for everyone including schools where we go and vote. it's more fair. there are a lot of issues with our election that could be fixed. and maybe it's time to look at some of those things. but two years is too long. and i think the climate it's created has been extremely damaging. >> i don't have any doubt that a lot of people feel the same way you do, especially after this campaign, but do you think this is an artifact of the trump/clinton election. did you feel this way about the obama/mccain election eight years ago, boy, i wish that would have been shorter when barack obama was coming out? >> the last election, that was the first time i'd seen campaigns of real hate rhetoric. and i sound like a dinosaur when i saw this, i grew up with walter cronkite, the 6:30 news, i grew up with the debates. we had many less options for