WIND SPRINTS...

Here are a couple of articles that agree with my assessment that this political campaign will be a sprint, not a marathon:

From the Hartford Courant:

Bowing to a national trend, Connecticut would join two dozen states in holding an early "Super-Duper Tuesday" presidential primary on Feb. 5 next year under a plan endorsed Tuesday by high-ranking state Republicans and Democrats.

Massachusetts and Rhode Island are expected to join Connecticut in abandoning their shared primary date of March 4, 2008, as states across the country adopt an ever-earlier presidential primary calendar, Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz
"The reality is the race will be over by the time we were voting in March," Bysiewicz said.

read the rest of that article here.

And the Wall Street Journal focuses on money ( what else is new?)

Lawmakers Join Hunt To Bag Big Donors Early
By Laurie P. Cohen
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The unusually early and intense fund-raising push in the 2008 presidential campaign is spurring congressional candidates into a hasty money chase as well, just two months after the current class of lawmakers was sworn in.

The sheer number of campaigns hunting for seed money has intensified the competition to tap big donors before they bump up against either legal or self-imposed caps on what they can give during the current election cycle, fund-raisers say. The rematch between Democrats and Republicans for control of the House and Senate is also ratcheting up what has become a perpetual campaign-finance cycle.