Cooling down

I noticed that in the past week with the end of the primary season and the withdrawal of Hillary Clinton that election coverage in the media has become a lot less intense. Thank God! I hope the next couple of months will be more low key and that coverage won't step up until the conventions at the end of the summer. The election season is way too long, and it's especially absurd in this era of modern communications and rapidly dwindling attention spans. It won't happen, but wouldn't it be great if in 2012 the primaries, conventions and general election be packed into a 4-6 month timespan? But it won't happen--too many people depend on a "permanent campaign" to make their fortune, or worse, to give their lives meaning and purpose. Those who fall into the latter category, are, to some extent, already existentially extinguished.