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As if we need Reuters to tell us what we already feel.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Inundated with politics long before the 2008 presidential election, U.S. voters are in danger of suffering wearying bouts of the uniquely American affliction of “campaign fatigue” in coming months.

Experts say voters who follow the news closely are most at risk of the condition striking this year earlier than ever. It takes its toll with information overload, long hitches of unpaid work for campaign volunteers and the all-important undecided voters on the fence longer than usual.

Voter attention tends to wane in between the early debates, major primaries and conventions and, in a contest so long this time it includes two summer hiatuses before the November 2008 vote, fatigue is practically unavoidable, many of the experts said.

We’ve complained of long campaigns in the past when they started the September or so of the year prior to the first caucus and primary.

This has been an almost two-year campaign marathon and I, for one, am ready for it to end.

If Congress wants to be productive in at least one thing they should pass a law that presidential campaigns cannot start earlier than three months before the first caucus and primary, and the caucuses and primaries must not start before six months before the first national convention.

Written by Jeanette

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