Fatigue

I had this feeling four years ago as well: for any consumer of the American news media, a presidential election is the most intellectually stifling time on the calendar. It's an addiction: the election's fascinating and important, so I can't stop reading about it, but every original word that could possibly be written or said about it is already on the page or in the air. We're just repeating ourselves, and we have been for months. It's like a fantastic restaurant right by your house that all of a sudden sells nothing but one delicious turkey sandwich for eight months. Yup, that's the metaphor.