Such a fast-paced election season will deliver more than just campaign finance reform. It will deliver excitement. Their length leads less to voter education than to pursuit of trivia. Fully 11 months before next November s presidential runoff, Tuesday s poll shows McCain running a dozen points behind Bush in New Hampshire. On Wednesday, another one pops up and has McCain pulling even.
Boredom expands to fill space.
Our seemingly endless campaigns are boring voters to tears. To paraphrase Andy Warhol, everybody in America will be boring for 15 minutes. We can tolerate that. It s when it goes on for 15 months and more that we tune out. We cannot tolerate a comatose voting public that has tuned out all politics.