Voter Fatigue

There is a report out that voters are facing an outbreak of voter fatigue. Man, talk about the understatement of the year.

Experts say voters who follow the news closely are most at risk of the condition striking this year earlier than ever. It takes its toll with information overload, long hitches of unpaid work for campaign volunteers and the all-important undecided voters on the fence longer than usual.

For some reason I keep thinking the election this November. Maybe it's because all you hear is this debate and that debate.

Voter attention tends to wane in between the early debates, major primaries and conventions and, in a contest so long this time it includes two summer hiatuses before the November 2008 vote, fatigue is practically unavoidable, many of the experts said.

I think though that the problem isn't so much the overload the but the dearth of any worthwhile candidates.

Maybe they should just pretend they are all senators, some of them are already good at that, and just go on a long fact finding mission until next year at this time.

I'm not so much tired as just tired of them.

Jim Martin