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You need to remind people that you vote, you matter, and that they can't succeed without your help.

There are a lot of different demands on the campaign trail, but what matters most is that you connect with voters and take the time to really hear their concerns.

So the - the part of the problem is not just the rhetoric. It's the fact that we - we're so polarized in what we've done to each other as parties over the last thirty years in redistricting that it's very, very hard to overcome your own constituencies and move to the middle.

I will go on doing what voters tell me to do, which is working with others, working out solutions, and getting results.

We must correct the problems and inequities in the way we conduct and decide elections in the United States.

We have just been working hard to have people to come out to vote and to make sure people understand how important the election is.

Politicians must be simple and clear about how their ideas will serve the national cause. We can no longer use the complexity of today's problems as an excuse for inaction, rhyme or rhetoric that does not meet the challenges before us.

During my campaign, people of my age and younger said consistently that they would not vote because their votes simply no longer matter and because no government or member of Parliament cared a whit about their problems and their striving for employment.

I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.

Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor; I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it.