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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Subjects: Politics, U.S.
Topics: Presidential Election 2008, Democratic Nomination, Republican Nomination, Republican Party, Democratic Party
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Posted by: Posted by Leo Romero - Apr 27, 2008 - 8:54 AM PDT
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 by Chris Finnie - Apr. 27, 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 ... More »

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