At 6 p.m. on New Year's Eve in Times Square, the police are herding revelers into crowd-control pens, and I'm thinking, "These guys are stuck here, and the damned ball isn't coming down for another six hours."

That's how I feel about the 2008 presidential election. The thing isn't going to happen for 22 months, yet the politically obsessed are already standing-room-only, dismembering poll data that will be totally stale by the next full moon. I do not care to join them &mdash ...

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