The race for the White House

Dog days musings

By Wayne Brown

There’s an enervating, ‘dog-days’ air about this phase of the race for the White House. There’s a lot going on, but nothing is happening.

The Democratic contest – which by now seems so interminable, comedian Jon Stewart has taken to bannering it the ‘Bataan Death March to the Democratic Nomination’ – has in reality been over for some time; except that it isn’t.