Now, This Is Campaign Fatigue

Washington Post by Jonathan Weisman | Apr. 26, 2008 (News Report)

After nearly six months on the road, sleeping in hotels, herding an unruly press corps onto buses, and boarding and emptying out charter planes from Medford, Ore., to Mecklenburg County, N.C., Jen Psaki on Friday faced reality.

With seemingly no end to the Democratic campaign in sight, Sen. Barack Obama's traveling press aide went to the Chicago apartment she has seen a dozen times since December, put her belongings into storage and let her lease ... Full Story »

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Chris Finnie
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 by Chris Finnie - Oct. 1, 2008

This is good storytelling, but not necessarily good journalism. Our presidential campaigns are getting too long. Other countries do it in 6 weeks. We're bigger than a lot of countries. But even big ones do it faster. This has a lot of ramifications besides staff, candidate, and voter fatigue. One of the biggest is that candidates need astronomical amounts of money to run. This means they are under pressure to grant favors to those who can provide it. And that has corrupted our whole system of government. That is the real issue.

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