If I was creating a new country, I would set up the presidential campaigns very differently.
Personally, I am sick of both sides. I am sick of all sides. Everyone involved in political races are just pandering to whatever it is that the majority of their possible voters want to hear. Through a campaign, there are hundreds or thousands of people that are running off to their lab, crunching numbers and handing the candidate exactly what they should say on index cards or a teleprompter. We get absolutely no idea what the actual candidate thinks, and as soon as some slips in, their administration is quick to rush in, create BS excuses for it and put a muzzle on them.
I think that as soon as someone wants to run for president, starting with the nomination process, they should have to check themselves into a maximum security prison. Each candidate will be privately given their own personal destination that will not be given to the public. Maybe the FBI could work security during their "campaign detention". They would not be allowed to speak with anyone, and would not be given any publications that were printed after they were checked in. The only info of the outside world they could receive would be world news not pertaining to their campaign (so they could give the public their choice of action if they were president), and any emergency info about their family. They would be fed very well, and once or twice a day, they would be given a microphone and a blue screen (to make it look like they are in front of a capital building, etc.) and they would address the American people. No teleprompter, no index cards, no in in their ear telling them what to say. They would just speak their mind, and the American people could decide if that is who they would vote for.
This would most likely cut down on the lies that politicians tell to get people to like them, since they will have no clue how they are doing. No strategists (the lie makers), and no polls that they can see. I think this would work out for the betterment of the political process as a whole.