Look, I know this is an election that really matters, but it's still February 2007 - and more than 650 days to the inauguration of the next US president. My eyes are getting sore. It's hard not to sympathize with Akaky, who foresees people becoming 'so absolutely sick of this Presidential election cycle that we won't care who the next President is, we'll vote for anyone who promises to stay the hell off of our televisions and out of our sight for a prolonged period of time'.
Michael Kazin puts the complaint in perspective:
[T]he nearly permanent campaign has been a feature of American politics since before the Civil War, when mass parties first emerged to contend for the votes of a mass electorate...(Via Political Theory Daily Review.)