Election Campaign Of Two Years

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As a non-American I often wonder why the presidential elections in the USA 'start' so early... Almost 2 years before the actual election takes place, America is already warming up to it. Potential candidates seek the publicity, the 'will he do it or will he not?' are daily stuff for the media, outspoken candidates already start campaigning one way or another... Don't your politicians have a country to run? Apparently they have ample time to play the media and the people and their vanity... In other countries around the world where there are presidential elections, or chancellor's, or whatever, the campaign takes only two or three months, tops. That does not mean it is not a serious campaign... it is just not a circus like the American elections, it handles the issue at hand: election. My feeling is that if the politicians do their job properly, the country would be better off, and the last two months before an election, in this case fall 2008, okay, they can campaign. Honestly, whether you campaign for two years or two months, the results are merely the same!