One of the annoying things about being a citizen of the United States is also one of the things that makes being an American so great: our political process.
But with regard to the annoying bits, perhaps the most irritating is what seems like very little relief from presidential campaigning. It’s as if the occupant of the White House is always campaigning, while the opposition party starts its run against the president at least two years before the election.
It seems to take the first year of the opposition party’s effort to unseat the president just to eliminate the also-rans – who never were serious candidates – during which time the serious players hone their campaigning skills. By the year of the election, there are usually a small handful that duke it out during the primary phase until finally, one is victorious and gets the nomination.
So here we are in that opposition party phase and in most polls, former Massachusetts governor, Mitt Romney, is currently seen as the Republican front-runner. Sin