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Aren’t you tired of the Presidential elections? I am! To think that we feel like this in April, while still going through primaries! What will we be feeling by the time general election voting takes place in November?

Yes, I know this is democracy and we should take pride in competitive elections. I know that lot of people around the world, living under authoritarian regimes are envying us. I certainly do not want to live under some dictator just to avoid annoyances of a democratic election.

However a lot can be said in praise of moderation. That goes for elections as well.

Do we need all those political ads day in and day out? One cannot but feel that all that money used to buy ads be better used elsewhere.

Then there is the “news”. One cannot turn on news without getting inundated by a torrent of election stories to almost total exclusion of all other news. Do we really need to hear TV talking heads endlessly parsing every sentence of candidates and their surrogates? Please let people make up their own minds in their own time.

What makes all this wall to wall coverage nauseating is its triviality. Most of it does not concern the real issues and platforms of the candidates, but peripheral issues about candidates’ personality or associations. Political junkies may care about all that, but most of us ordinary folk do not.

If political junkies do not believe we are tired of election, they should listen to people they trust; pollsters. Polls have consistently indicated that election fatigues is rising all round the country. Take heed!