Early 2008 Election Campaign: ANNOYING & WASTE OF TIME

At this point I am already sick of it. And to think the primaries are fighting to be earlier and earlier. Plus there are so many running on both sides. We all know the canditates will promise everything and give nothing.

I think starting so early has made most of us voters "campaign weary". I know I'm not paying a ttention like I was a couple months ago. It really hurts too that states keep moving primaries up. I think they should have to start later, that way there's not so much time to forget what the original message each candidate is trying to send is.

I agree to an extent. I am now tired of the debates. I am mostly tired of idiots like Sean Hannity and Bill O'Riely who want to bash good people like Ron Pual. Yet they praise and suck up to CFR new world order scum like Obama and Clinton. Other than that is has been good for Ron Paul he has a head start is defeating all the other nut jobs running. The only ones I can agree with a little bit are Kunich and Mike Gravel... But Ron Paul is the number one day. Live FREE.. or DIE!!! Ron Paul for President.

This is true, although it does have it's uses also. This early campaigning can trip some of this candidates up, especially when they say different thing to different audiences depending on what the audience seems to want to hear. The chance to catch flip-flopping increases dramatically every time they talk....and some of the attacks are simply amazing to read. Annoying?...yes...waste of time...most of the time. Despite all of this there are times when the hyperbole and rhetoric can get downright entertaining.

They certainly have started early this time but with so many candidates I guess we need plenty of debates to have a chance to hear at least some of what each of them has to say. The battle over who will have the earliest primaries bothers me most. I'd like to have one primary election day for the entire nation just like for the general election that way the nominees wouldn't be selected by just a few states. There are so many polls these days, I heard one a few days ago where they said 75% of those surveyed said they were paying "close attention" to the race for the White House. I'm a news and politics junkie so I'm always paying attention but I know I'm not in the majority! However someone said we're already becoming "campaign weary" but I think we're also even MORE Bush weary so that might explain the early start this time. No one wants to wait until 2008. Annie

I'm afraid that the culprit in early campaigning isn't the field of candidates--the culprit is in the states which have moved their primaries up to the beginning of the year (I hear that one state, and I forget which) wants to hold its primary in December of this year. The early debates are for the benefit of states which have moved their primaries up. That's just how it is. The Democrat Party issued a policy to not campaign in states which have moved their primary schedules up, but that's a move which causes the party to dictate to the state how to conduct its elections. The whole scene is totally cockeyed, and I blame it on the 2 party system. We need more choices and less power for the Big Two.

Personally, I'm already sick of it all, and that is not good. How am I going to keep up with them all and what they are saying if I opt out now? UGH! YES! They started this garbage much too soon. We have a ways to go yet.