USA Today/Gallup Poll: 70% Of Americans Can’t Wait For The 2012 Race To Be Over

[Tx4obama]

Well this is interesting
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Debate fatigue? A recent USA Today/Gallup poll released yesterday shows a whopping 70% of Americans are solidly opposed to the neverending reality show known as the “2012 presidential campaign,” or at least “can’t wait for it to be over.” The desperation for the campaigns to end transcends ideological boundaries, geography, and age, with men being slightly less averse to the whole thing.

The poll shows some interesting albeit depressing points of unison among Americans– 67% of Democrats and 66% of Republicans want the campaign to be over. Also according to Gallup, “all key subgroups look forward more to the campaign’s end than its beginning, but some slightly less so than others. For example, men (31%) are more likely than women (21%) to say they can’t wait for the campaign to begin.”

SNIP

But there is a silver lining for newswatchers who are desperately seeking an end to this campaign season: only thirteen months to go before we can start seriously thinking about the 2016 presidential race!

http://www.mediaite.com/online/usa-todaygallup-poll-70-of-americans-cant-wait-for-the-2012-race-to-be-over/


AND we still have 10 more GOP scheduled debates to sit through: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_republican_debates

[liberal N proud]

1. With the three times weekly clown shows and the attack ads...

They have successfully pissed off most of the public.

Only problem, once the 2012 elections are finished, it move right into 2014 campaign season. They just don't stop to govern any more.

[cliffordu]

2. No shit.

I'm exhausted and the real bloodletting hasn't even started.....

[RKP5637]

3. Anymore, one just rolls into the next, many politicians pretty much spend their time campaigning,

returning favors and sniffing out $$$ for the next election. We definitely need limits on $$$ and campaigning. ... but MSM makes out like bandits with the cash they haul in.

Anyway, watching the R debates is a health hazard, and especially the last one on GOP TV, AKA Fox. My IQ has been dropping and my BP going up!

[BeyondGeography]

4. Poor babies

[MindMover]

5. It is no wonder we are already tired of the BS, when 94% of the time the candidate who

spends the most money on campaigning wins......

this type of government sucks to the max.....

[Enrique]

6. my liquor bill is killing me

[Tx4obama]

8. Picked up another BIG box of popcorn at Sam's Club the other day, I'm ready

[wandy]

7. If it wasnt so serious. If the stakes werent this high.

Its kind of fun watching that Republican clown car demolition derby down their in the center ring. I mean you can sort of 'time' John Stewarts jokes, but you never know what foolishnes Bachmann might blither about god and Isreal next. And they have 10 more to go. Sombodys going to hall off and hit someone. And the fun hasent even started yet. Sooner or later one of them will have to face the master.
Keep telling you're self its only a movie, its only a movie.
Now picture Rick Perry debating Obama.
Drinking game! Have a shot everytime Perry says Ooops.

[Enrique]

10. heh, clown car demolition derby, I love it

especially ridiculous because I'm imagining only one car.

[coalition_unwilling]

11. At last Thursday's debate, I thought Gingrich was going to throw a punch

at Bachmann. From the look of utter malevolence on his face (while she was bringing forward the $1.6 million he received from Freddie and Fannie), I could swear he was thinking "You f***ng c**t".

[Tx4obama]

12. A couple of debates ago, I think it was Perry that looked like he was going to punch Romney

Can't remember for sure who it was or what the issue was,
but it really seemed like someone was going to punch someone that time too

[LynneSin]

9. I truly feel for people who live in those early primary states like Iowa and New Hampshire

It's like you'e guinea pigs for politics. Who wants to be that

[libinnyandia]

13. I hate to turn the tv on because I know there's a commercial running.

And the local paper, which is right wing, has wasted tons of newsprint expaining how Bachmann or Santorum have a chance. The paper fawns over everything the candidates say. I am so looking forward to the caucuses being over.

[Duct Tape]

14. I can't wait either. We all know that Obama will be

re-elected, so all this "Decision 2012" crap is just annoying.

[bhikkhu]

15. 's not over until I vote!

...or that's my motto. But I know what they mean. Even for a non-tv watcher, its going to be a long year.

[JoeyT]

16. That's not surprising.

Watching a pack of morons sneer at each other on TV was fun. For about two days. These people need professional help, not fawning media attention.

I'm guessing the 33% of Democrats that don't want it to end are thinking that the longer the GOPers have to rip each other the more likely their guy is to lose in the general, and they're probably right. Still, someone should think of the children and the example this sets for them. Do we really want the message "Look Tim! If you're stupid and crazy enough you can be rich and famous too!" hammered into our kids heads? It doesn't help that the message appears to be correct. That looks to be the path to at the very least a Fox slot. (I'm joking of course, I don't actually care about the children.)

Seriously, though. Ten more debates from people who only know like twenty sentences? Ugh.