This election campaign sometimes seems as if it has been going on for years.

That’s because it has. It started the day after the last one.

It isn’t clear whose idea it was to do that. Nobody around these parts remembers being asked.

So, why should the next campaign open up the day after this one ends?

We used to watch the polling results, and we still do. But now we also watch the money raising numbers, too.

There’s a whole industry out there, devoted to raising election money. It lives off the election process.

Poll takers find other things to do between elections. Maybe money raisers can too.

And meanwhile, maybe the Congress can take a short history course in how bipartisan legislation actually comes into being. Somebody around here must remember how to do it.

Maybe it works better when we are not in an “Election Season.”