Well it's kind of interesting, like watching a snake eat its' own tail. And it is a system that has managed to evolve into a kind of Byzantium via Ringling Brothers. And if you were thinking that it's a lot like letting Alice Springs and Broome have an election and on the basis of the votes in those two places make a determination as to who was going to run in the national election you'd be right. Hell none of 4 largest, most powerful and most influential states (Illinois, home to Chicago / New York / Texas and California) have even had their primary yet. And you have two candidates (Santorum and Newt) who are backed by a single person in each case + Romney who's backed by 99% of the 1% and they seem to be splitting the entire mess down into very sloppy thirds with lots of bitterness and namecalling which hurts when they get to the general election. And they are running to run against someone that really isn't even running yet, Obama. And they are trying to get the most extreme right wing vote when everyone who looks at it knows those are not the votes you need to win the general.
> note: It looks in poll after poll, in all of them, over the last 4 years that: Republican guy =40% of the vote no matter what, Obama = 40% no matter what, and it's going to be all about getting more than half of that remaining 20%. And that 20% is primarily people who are not represented by either party, and they are mostly financially conservative but socially liberal, while the 'Pubs are conservative in both, and the Dems' liberal in both (no one would say they are financially liberal and socially conservative but they do exist on the far end of right wing of the Republican clan).
And because the Dems don't have to do a primary deal (no one is challenging Obama) all the focus is on the Republicans who are really the Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time-Players. And it's a lukewarm compromise at best. Romney represents that old guard faction of the party that's all about huge amounts of money and commerce, but he has the personal charisma of a speed bump and the same deft hand at the common touch as Marie Antoinette. The two wing-nut factions - Tea Party and Fundamentalist Xian Evangelical Born-Agains - didn't get who they really wanted, which was St. Sara. (for whatever reason, there can be little doubt now that had she run she would already have the nomination locked down) so they have to watch two truly creepy people fight it out and that's' dragging them very far to the right, and Mitt with them, and they are about to plunge into the abyss. If they haven't already.
The last two weeks with the talk turning to sex, women, reproduction and all that has really set them off.
But it is the entertainment branch of American Industry, and are you not entertained?
