Anybody else who can't wait for this presidential election to be over?!

[Ultralight]

Anybody else who can't wait for this presidential election to be over?!

[freshstart]

no, because that means we lose Obama that much sooner

but yes because I just cannot keep up like I always have during past presidential elections. For the first time, I'm not sure that I'm reading and remembering enough to make the most informed choice by my standards. I've skipped some debates, never have I done that. I'm sick of talking about it, have not even applied my Bernie bumper sticker and I'm mum on FB. I'll be relieved when the primaries are over because then I'll know for sure who has my vote without having to make myself worry if I cast the right one.

[Rogar]

It's some of the best reality TV entertainment I've had in a long time. Probably when the big time commercials start it will get tedious. As far as television coverage goes, I'd rate it higher than holiday commercials that want you to go out an buy things, and slightly better than NFL players causing brain damage to each other. My television has an off switch which I use often.

It's made for some decent discussions among friends. Unlike other recent elections, there are some out of the box campaigners that are actually getting some support and might be contenders.

[LDAHL]

To me, the Obama years, with all their overwrought rhetoric and whining, have followed a sort of Ayn Rand narrative. Between the Obamacare drama, "you didn't build that" and every utterance ever made by Elizabeth Warren it's all had a sort of Atlas Shrugged flavor for me. Humorless zealots on either side of any issue you care to name.

But as the Obama curtain goes down, it has been pointed out by more than one commentator that we are entering a Tom Wolfe phase. Campus crybullies and presidential candidates for whom the Bill of Rights is a luxury we can no longer afford. Flak-catchers being mau-maued all over the place for all sorts of reasons. Pizza purveyors getting the Bonfire of the Vanities treatment. Radical chic among a comically clueless elite. Mendacity sold as idealism.

Basically, I'm pleased by this development. Wolfe is a much more engaging writer.

[Ultralight]

To me, the Obama years, with all their overwrought rhetoric and whining, have followed a sort of Ayn Rand narrative. Between the Obamacare drama, "you didn't build that" and every utterance ever made by Elizabeth Warren it's all had a sort of Atlas Shrugged flavor for me. Humorless zealots on either side of any issue you care to name.

But as the Obama curtain goes down, it has been pointed out by more than one commentator that we are entering a Tom Wolfe phase. Campus crybullies and presidential candidates for whom the Bill of Rights is a luxury we can no longer afford. Flak-catchers being mau-maued all over the place for all sorts of reasons. Pizza purveyors getting the Bonfire of the Vanities treatment. Radical chic among a comically clueless elite. Mendacity sold as idealism.

Basically, I'm pleased by this development. Wolfe is a much more engaging writer.

LDAHL: That was so high-brow! It made me giggle. :laff:

[JaneV2.0]

Mau-mauing the Flak-Catchers...Ah nostalgia. That was a memorable bit, that's for sure.

[bae]

The election is a year away. I'm really not paying it much attention during this early bread-and-circuses phases, I'm waiting until the back room party overlords deliver us our two mainstream candidates to "select" from.

Then again, I don't watch football either.

[Lainey]

The election is a year away. I'm really not paying it much attention during this early bread-and-circuses phases, I'm waiting until the back room party overlords deliver us our two mainstream candidates to "select" from.

Then again, I don't watch football either.

+1

[Williamsmith]

Like the extended baseball season and the drawn out football games and the ridicuculousness of the Super Bowl buildup ....it's all meant to soak up as much advertising money as they can possibly create. It would be nice if nobody tuned in.

We can't get to the big all in moment until all the players have pushed their stacks out in the middle. Many have not. How refreshing it would be to have a politician not backed by big monied interests. As it is, way too predictable.

[Tammy]

Bernie Sanders is rejecting the big money donations.

[Zoe Girl]

I guess I am just waiting to see if there is a scandal that matters to me before I vote, pretty much going to check out the couple I like a month ahead of time on the issues that are my top 3, but dang! I cannot seem to escape all the media noise and I live without a lot of regular media already.

[rodeosweetheart]

I think some people, especially people who ever worked in journalism or politics, love watching the process--I am one of those.
But others find it very tiresome, "not their cup of tea."

[LDAHL]

It's like anything else. If it bores or offends you, ignore it. That's what DVRs are for. I myself have screened out the NBA, surgically enhanced reality show stars, the last thirty years of popular music, Jon Stewart and romantic comedies. It can be done with the available technology and a little discretion.

[catherine]

I think some people, especially people who ever worked in journalism or politics, love watching the process--I am one of those.
But others find it very tiresome, "not their cup of tea."

I enjoy it, too. Maybe because I'm a market researcher, it find it to be like one giant focus group.