Am I the only person who finds this a curiously boring presidential campaign?

[cali]

The nominees aren't engaging in any meaningful way. Obama is being cautious to a fault. McCain is, well, doddering on. It's just a giant snooze, and I'm tuning it out more and more. Until the candidates really start engaging, until they pick running mates, there really isn't much to follow. Maybe that's why folks are obsessing over the New Yorker cover.

[high density]

1. Yeah it seems kind of boring in a way

With the MSM and/or DU outrage of the day, there's little time left to discuss anything of lasting value. So far the campaign has mostly been either Obama or McCain apologizing for something.

[Bluzmann57]

2. Maybe it's because it's gone on for soooooooooooo long

Candidates were declaring in 2006 that they were "thinking about running" and then set out fund raising. I think people are just getting campaign fatigue. As the year goes on, I think that things will pick up. Some 527 group will say and/or do something stupid and all hell will break loose. At least that's my two cents worth.

[uberblonde]

3. Yep.

Wake me up when it's over.

[Peacetrain]

4. There is so little for the MSM to chew on right now

The problem with that, is they tend to make mountains out of molehills just to have something to talk about. That always worries me

But I just have this "impending" sense of optimism, about getting our country turned back around. ;) At least the starting or righting the ship of state.

Maybe it is the dog days of summer also. Everything slows down with the heat. Even campaigns.

[cliffordu]

21. "Impending sense of optimism..."

LOL

:rofl:

[Tom Rinaldo]

5. Obama is running the way Hillary was last year at this same time

Front runners syndrome is a bitch (in the non sexual meaning of that word lol)

[asjr]

6. "boring" is too kind a word. This

has been the longest running race in my lifetime. And the next will begin one day after Obama takes the oath of office. There needs to be a rule about starting early. We will all run out of money before election day.

[MannyGoldstein]

7. We're In The Sitzkrieg Stage Now

Open hostilities will break out in late August.

[BeyondGeography]

10. Drole de guerre, anyone?

[nancyr]

8. I agree.

It is painful. By the time the election rolls around we'll all be too bored to vote. Or too busy trying to survive.

[BeyondGeography]

9. It is boring compared with Obama-Clinton...for now

Post-conventions there will be debates, intense campaigning like we haven't seen before (on the Obama side at least) and the future will be on the line with a Nov. 4 due date staring us in the face. Expect things to perk up nicely then.

[bigwillq]

11. Obama is very calculating.

He's been very careful, imo. Not that it's a bad thing but, to me, he's acting like a typical politician. I, for one, never got the impression that Obama wasn't the typical politician type. I thought he made an absolutely wonderful speech at the 2004 DEM convention but when he got into the Senate, imo, he played his cards very carefully because he knew he would be running for the presidency.

I actually enjoyed how the DEM primary season went on for as long as it did. It made things more interesting. That being said, I am glad we finally have a nominee and we can finally work towards winning the White House.

I was never a big Obama fan (or Clinton fan for that matter) but I fully intend to support Obama as our nominee.

Hope what I said makes sense. Not trying to knock Obama but just trying to tell you the impression I get from him.

[Alter Ego]

12. The primary went on for too long.

The GE so far is a letdown--but not to worry. It'll pick up after the convention.

[PATRICK]

13. McCain

has degenerated already into "that guy, you know, the one who ran against Obama." The post season had its drama in the Dem primary.

The only excitement is how to deal with the inevitable cheating, the MSM fraud and Bush/Cheney misdeeds. Other than that there is no real election to discuss or judge. McCain will lie and get around maybe to saying anything that might help him in the delusion department. Obama is basically wary of the rabbit punches below the belt and must feel somewhat irritated(as when he faced his phony GOP Senate campaign opponent) there is no there there when it comes to substantive "debate".

This game now exists truly in the cheating or beating the cheating, but no one can even mention that subject so it is not only boring but missing the essential point of the ugly, sad GOP competition.

[H2O Man]

14. Yes, you certainly are.

The rest of the nation -- no! the world, including dead people -- are on the edges of their seats and caskets, because John McCain is simply the most dynamic of politicians.

[dsomuah]

15. It's still early

This is the calm before the storm. Obama has just secured the presumtive dem nomination, and is taking time to evaluate things. McCain has fundraising problems, and message problems and needs to get his house in order before engaging Obama. Things will heat up after the conventions. It was just like this 4 years ago, after the initial attempts to paint Kerry as a flip-flopper, things cooled down a lot just before the convention. Even Kerry's decision to announce he was choosing Edwards as his running mate didn't heat things up.

[HughBeaumont]

16. McClown is being. . . McClown.

'nother words, he almost has enough monotony to spill over to the other side. Almost.

[MonkeyFunk]

17. It's too early

things won't pick up again until September.

[Marie26]

18. You miss Hillary.

Admit it. :P

[DangerDave921]

19. YES!

The primaries were so much more fun.

All the Dems will now vote Obama. And all the RW'ers will vote McCain. So where's the drama?

[PurityOfEssence]

20. It's the season of soft support

My conservative friends all hate McCain, but will vote for him anyway. Some of my lefty friends are real Obama enthusiasts, but most have SERIOUS problems with him and will do nothing more than show up and vote for him.

The candidates themselves are wandering about and blithering toward the middle, and while this should be a time of extreme zeal on both sides of the proverbial aisle, it's more one of shell-shock and bland disinterest.

Most peculiar...

[dsomuah]

23. Actually ...

Sorry to rag on your informal polling of your friends, but ...

Polling shows that the bland disinterest is more on the republican side than on the dem side. There are certainly people disillusioned with Obama but polling shows that democrats on a whole are more excited about voting for Obama than republicans are about McCain.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

22. Not boring. I find it outrageous by how the media is giving McSame a free ride...

Remember that the campaign will not heat up until the conventions and/or the candidates announce their running mate. It's gone on far too long and it's been more grueling than dull.