Matt  Taibbi broke the news in The Rolling Stone blog sections today. Taibbi  declared that not only is this year's presidential election the "most boring election ever", but also reality is that the election is already over.

According  to Taibbi, the only reason that voters are still being put through the  charade of an election is so that news networks and reporters have  something to talk about and fill out the time slots.

So,  we can all tune out and ignore all the hype in the social networks,  turn off the TV news, cancel our subscriptions to newspapers and  magazines. There is no reason to keep playing a game that's already  over.

This year? It's been eerily quiet. The apathy factor in American presidential politics has seemingly never been higher.

As  if to combat this, we're getting stories now about how this election is  closer than you'd think, how Obama is in for a "tight race" or a  "fierce fight" with Romney, and how the Republican challenger is  "closing in" to a "statistical dead heat."

They're going to say  this, and they may even have numbers to back it up, like this week's  Gallup poll showing Obama with just a two-point lead. But I think it's a  mirage.

The people who work for the wire services and the news  networks are physically incapable of writing sentences like, "This  election is even more over than the Knicks-Heat series." They are  required, if not by law then by neurological reflex, to describe every  presidential campaign as "fierce" and "drawn-out" and "hotly-contested."

But  this campaign, relatively speaking, will not be fierce or hotly  contested. Instead it'll be disappointing, embarrassing, and over very  quickly, like a hand job in a Bangkok bathhouse. And everybody knows it.  It's just impossible to take Mitt Romney seriously as a presidential  candidate. Even the news reporters who are paid to drum up dramatic  undertones are having a hard time selling Romney as half of a titanic  title bout.

Then there's one more thing – Obama versus Romney is  the worst reality show on TV since the Tila Tequila days. The characters  are terrible, there's no suspense, and the biggest thing is, it lacks  both spontaneity and a gross-out factor. In Reality TV, if you don't  have really sexy half-naked young people scheming against each other  over campfires in the Cook Islands, you need to have grown men eating  millipedes or chicks in bikinis drinking donkey semen. And if you don't  have that, you really need Sarah Palin.

Anyway, you can expect  the media efforts to drum up interest in the election to really heat up  in the next few weeks. The Republican race is over now and the networks  need to fill those hours. The presidential race is always a great  illusion, designed to distract people from the more hardcore politics in  this country, the minutiae of trade and tax and monetary policy that's  too boring to cover. When the presidential race is a bad show, people  might not have any choice but to pay attention to those other things.  And this year's version is the worst show in memory. It'll be  interesting to see how it plays out.

http://rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/is-this-the-most-boring-election-ever-20120507

Thanks, Matt, for making that all clear.

From the Cornfield, I guess Iohn and I voting today in the Indiana Primary was just plain foolish and a waste of time.