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| This once-perky gal-on-the-go is not the only one who has become bored with the 2012 presidential campaign. |
One needs merely to spend
a moment or two perusing
the Internet, tuning in to television news programs
or just listening in on conversations at the local Starbucks to recognize a
sense of voter fatigue and
the waning political interest sweeping the nation. It’s
only August and the
electorate clearly is burnt out already from the current presidential race.
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But this should come as no surprise to anyone who follows “the game.” We have an incumbent President and Vice President who have been running for re-election since January 2009, while challenger Mitt Romney has been ramping up to November 2012 since he was “encouraged” to bail out of the primaries early in 2008.
I recently
discovered a website that even has predicted the complete red vs. blue state
breakdown and exactly how the Electoral College “chips” likely will fall. Media
mogul Rupert Murdoch and other acknowledged political pundits also have all
weighed in with their various predictions.
Yet despite the
screaming, yelling and name-calling that we’ve witnessed thus far this season, I
doubt that there is much personal connection between voters and either major
party candidate. The state of the nation is “screwed” – people are hurting
and they're downright mad as hell. And for whatever reason, I believe that most of the
support being thrown to either Obama or Romney simply is based on the “D” or
“R” next to their names – while many others have given up on our political
process all together.
I believe that
people already know darn well who they’re going to vote for in November and
they’ve known it since the last election cycle. In short, this campaign
seemingly has been underway for four years now, hence the burn-out factor.
In recent days, speculation (and inter-party elation) has been building regarding the likelihood of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice being tapped as Romney's runningmate – but don't get your hopes up, kids. Romney likely will play it safe by choosing a “vanilla” white
guy – a senator or governor from the Midwest named “Smith” or “Connor” or whoever as
his VP. In fact, everything on both sides of the aisle will play out real
slick and real safe. And in the end, we gleefully will once again overdose on
Obama’s “Kool-Aid” and he will be re-elected in a “squeaker" – 50.2% to 49.8%.
So, there ya go. It's sad but true. We now all can return to our PlayStation, Xbox
and/or iGadget devices. Yikes – heaven help us, everyone.
-Christopher Long
(July 2012)
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