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After Super Tuesday, exhausted Americans face 8 more months of presidential campaigning

  • Written by Jared McDonald, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, University of Mary Washington
imageCampaign volunteers set up signs encouraging people to vote.AP Photo/Vasha Hunt

Now that Super Tuesday is over and the Democratic and Republican nominees are all but officially chosen, as everyone expected, voters can turn the page to the general election.

But they’re not excited about it, and they haven’t been for months.

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