I made the two changes. It fixed the spacing between the fields but now the Name, Email and Subject fields are pushed to the right and they aren't equally spaced like in the Salient demo (see 2nd link below). It also looks like they were able to increase the size of the font on the contact form on the Salient demo.
Also, how i do i make the Name and Email fields required fields again?
My Website: http://u1sc.ca/contact/
Salient Demo: http://themenectar.com/demo/salient-ascend/contact/