A Campaign to Hate

Wherever I go — from glittering dinner party to glittering dinner party — the famous and powerful people I meet (for such is my life) tell me how lucky I am to be a journalist in this the greatest of all presidential contests. I tell them, for I am wont to please, that this campaign is indeed great when, as history will record, it is not. I have come to loathe the campaign.

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I certainly understand where Richard is coming from here.  This whole campaign has been painful to watch, and it’s hard not to watch with the intensity of media focus it seems to be getting compared to previous elections.  And I can’t figure out who the lesser evil will be.  At this point, I am convinced that it won’t matter who gets elected.  The only difference will be in how the media spins it.