I thought that moving early next year would save me from the media frenzy that will be the 2008 election. It’s not that I’m not interested in politics, but I’m still recovering from 2004. Even now election coverage is almost too much to take. It seems like there’s a party debate every other week and with the exception of Giuliani and Kucinich, almost all the Republican and Democratic platforms are the same, respectively. It’s all a bunch of bickering over minutia and I’m really tired of it all. It’s with that thought that I hope this Londonist story will never come to absolute fruition.

It seems that some of the presidential candidates have been “rounding up the troops” in terms of ex-pats in the UK. I fully plan on voting absentee next November, but believe you me, no propaganda speeches are going to change my mind about either candidate, whomever they may be or however many times they come to London.

Rarely reticent about glad-handing the masses on their way to Washington, key campaign figures have been stepping out in London recently. Last week Obama’s wife, Michelle, pressed the flesh at a fundraiser, while the Republican frontrunner Rudy Giuliani wowed the ex-pats in Knightsbridge in September. There’s good reason to keep their London fans sweet: once both parties have nominated their candidate, they will be able to accept more donations from foreign voters.

What’s next? TV ads on BBC 1? Full-page spreads in The Guardian? Don’t they realise that a lot of us who have left the States don’t exactly want to be reminded of the train wreck craziness that is the electoral process?

::Yawn::