1 year and 7 months before election.

[Mother Of Four]

1 year, 7 months. Are you kidding me? Am I in the twilight zone?

Edited to make this a little more clear.

When people started to announce candidacy for president here recently I wanted to start bashing my head against my desk. Edit here:
Stop the sniping, focus on issues and what we need to know so we can make informed choices. No ones head needs to explode.

I want an election, not a reality show. Edit here: It's an election, for gods sake. Not jersey shore. Hey Media- Calm the flip down.

I want an Alan Grayson or an Elizabeth Warren, I want a person who isn't afraid to say what they believe and stand by it instead of pandering to get nominated- then pandering again to get the election. Edit here: I really hope someone else comes forward as a good and valid choice.

I want to feel good about my vote, not hold my nose.

Don't get me wrong, I WILL vote for HC if I have no other choice. I won't let my vote go to any form of crackpot from the right. I won't abstain from voting in some sort of protest.

(sighs)

Bleh.

[Agschmid]

1. Primaries are in less than one year...

Unless you wanted a corronation?

[Mother Of Four]

2. I understand that.

I'm more referring to peoples heads exploding every time someone announces that they are putting their hat in the ring.

Then expressing the hope that someone I can feel good about voting for jumps in.

Does that make it any clearer?

[joshcryer]

6. 9 months.

More like 8 months since the first to announce isn't getting a real challenge that early. Could even be reduced to 6 months in this case since other Democrats aren't willing to stand up. Bernie should be changing parties today if he was going to do anything. We'll see how it goes.

[clydefrand]

3. Oh damn, yes it is and

I'm sick and tired of hearing about already.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. The last time I went to my Congressman's victory celebration...

the day after Election Day, he was asked when he'll start the re-election campaign.

"Tomorrow."

It's insane, and even worse is the right wing talking about waste but never about the billions spent on elections.

[peacebird]

5. Agreed. Let's talk platform, ideas, what we need and where we want to go as a country.