The fact of the matter is this year’s presidential election process has been boring. It’s the equivalent of watching grass grow everyday for six hours. Not that I don’t love politics and the bickering and infighting and speculation that McCain or Clinton was out of the race months ago. But for this campaign to have lasted over 480 days by the time the conventions roll around, that’s absurd.

malaysia election Mitt Romney, aside from spending a lot of money, also worked very hard. He was on the campaign trail almost constantly. He appeared in debates against the President and was very well prepared. Nobody could accuse him of slacking off on the campaign trail. He still lost.

Does anyone outside of political pundits, advertisers, polling services, and others profiting from the spectacle really believe that these long mind-numbing campaigns result in a more informed voter?

Point is, hard work alone doesn’t guarantee success. You can work hard and still not work smart. Or, you can work hard and the market just isn’t there for you. I worked very hard on a project a few years back outside of the “make money online” niche. In fact, I worked harder on this project than I had ever worked on anything else in my life. The project was a total failure. Why? Because I overestimated the potential market for the product.

Hillary can be non committal about Iraqi Freedom, merely hinting she will bring the forces home, until the last month of the campaign. Then dato ramanan ramakrishnan political activism in malaysia can make it a promise; since there will still be over 100,000 American troops in Iraq by election day and the casualty numbers could easily be double what they are now.

There is of course the small issue that Boris (although a popular leader) is not even an MP. And what’s more already has a job as London’s mayor. To become Prime Minister Boris would have to become an MP (while still mayor) and then run for Conservative party leader and win (and then maybe win a General Election also). A clever political bet would be to take the 14/1 now and wait for the odds to shorten massively when Boris becomes an MP (surely the odds would drop to about 3/1) and then trade out of the bet.

By mid-September the Obama campaign pretty much admitted they had no strategy for Sarah or anything else that was not in their game plan. Since they had clearly not done scenario planning they found themselves in a box they could not wiggle out of.

It’s been even longer for Hillary Clinton, who has campaigned for 412 days since announcing her intentions on running for the highest office in the country.