Yep. This is going to be a miserable 18 months.
I'm beginning to think the best thing might be for the president to serve a single 6 year term with no chance for re-election. They can really only get 5-6 good years in anyway. Their 3rd year is spent campaigning for a 2nd term and soon after the mid-term elections of the 2nd term they are "lame duck" anyway. Maybe it's just me, but I've never liked seeing a sitting president having to campaign and be campaigned against. I don't think it's a good thing for the country.