In a sense, I agree with you completely. This is starting too early.
But it's started.
And, it's going to start this early or earlier for pretty much the rest of our lives. Media, money, and the times are changing how we elect Presidents. It's one thing to not like it, but it's another to ignore it. As FReepers, we can sit around and complain about how things were better when campaigns didn't start so early. We're not running for anything.
If we were, someone else would eat our lunch.
And, yet, it's not really like a campaign. In fact, we have many who are daily trying to aviod having a clearly elucidated opinion on anything...that's why Obama's comment made the news. It's the first morsel, though we've been at the table all this time.
So, in a sense, we DON'T have campaigns going on. See my other post....where's the meat?
(I guess all this Regean talk transported me straight back to the 80s!!!)