Longest. Election. Ever.

As much as the Canadian Political Landscape frustrates me, I am so glad I'm not an American voter.

Presidential elections occur every four years on November 2nd but the run up to the election starts around a year and a half to two years earlier. Last night Kim and I were talking about the election and I explained roughly that the current events are all about figuring out who the candidates for each party are going to be through state primaries and caucuses. For a through description see this webpage but basically they are mini-elections for each party in each state to choose delegates that will vote for the candidates in the party national conventions. Its similar to how the Electoral College chooses the president in a presidential election.

Confused yet?

Anyway, the point is this: for the past 6-8 months each party has had their presidential candidates running for the nomination up for grabs. Then once both parties have picked their candidate, we finally get to see them sling mud at each other for the actual election.

To me its too much. I'm exhausted just thinking about it.

Update: I took an online quiz and apparently my views on the topics quizzed matched very closely with Barak Obama which surprised me, I thought I was more of a Hillary Clinton supporter. Not that I get a vote.