Dear NPR:
It’s 18 months before the election. Only a true mental cripple would actually have more than a microscopic level of interest in what is going on in the Presidential “race”. And yet you find it necessary to waste literally hours of your expensive broadcast time “covering” this story which does not exist yet, analyzing events that have not happened, and “predicting” results that, given your complete lack of meaningful data, have no possible link to any future reality.
Please stop it. I’m begging you.
Pete
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PS: And enough with that disgusting Susan Stamberg cranberry relish recipe, while you’re at it. I mean, Jesus Christ already.
I would pay good money for anything that can help assist me imagining Bush out of office.
Damn, I’m a mental cripple.
Perhaps because it is not my own election but a foreign freakshow that I am finding it entertaining in small doses. Watching the Gop (seriously? I know it’s supposed to be read ‘Grand Old Party’, but to me it’s just “Gop”, i.e. rhymes with “Pop”) “debate” yesterday was strangely entertaining, especially when they staged their evolution question to have the Creationist candidates identify themselves to their constituents without having to take a public stance on the issue. What fun! 
But, to be fair, I never pay attention for more than ten minutes at a time – were I listening to NPR, I would be annoyed by anything more than scant coverage I’m sure.
Best wishes!
How do you all think Pete’s annoyance affects Hillary’s chances? Is this beneficial to the Huckabee surge, or does it play up immigration issues in a way that’s detrimental to the sitting senators (who’ve had to cast actual votes on the matter)?
Seriously, this stuff is like pre-baseball-season baseball chatter. Except political fans only get a really good game every 4 years, if that (1988, 1996 — were these real games at all?), so we have to make a lot of fuss about it. Given that the folks who decide what airs on NPR are probably mostly politics-”fans” what do you expect?
At some point I picked up an incurable disease that causes me to be very interested in politics. I am really looking forward to hearing McCain stop pandering and start being his usual self and I really want to hear how Obama plans to pay for all his programs.
-Doug
I expect nothing more or less than what I get, but I can still complain about it.
This is all very interesting, but it doesn’t tell my a damn thing about what I really want to predict – 2012.