I don't like my homepage design, how do you think I should change it?

http://www.writeinyourvote.com

It seems like there's way too much going on to me, what do you think?

also I realize there are some display errors in IE7 and that a lot of stuff doesn't work. We'll be wrapping this up in the next couple weeks!

the newest updates will look like this (with all image ads)
http://www.writeinyourvote.com/media/images/sharingImages/21.jpg

please give me any advice you can! I'm not a designer, so I could use the help!

thanks everyone

 

I actually like it, although it didn't complete fit horizontally in my browser, both FF and IE.

 

what resolution do you use?

 

It's a good topic, however the layout is a little iffy. Also the color scheme is wierd. Or it might be alot of free space that is on there.