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Keller @ Large: It's Way Too Early To Talk About 2016

BOSTON (CBS) - I get it - it matters who is president of the United States.

Still, I have a novel suggestion: could we please put off the wall-to-wall coverage of the race to succeed President Obama for awhile?

Of course, this will not happen. There are too many wanna-be candidates and people who make money off the campaign process pushing for publicity, and too many media outlets addicted to early horse-race coverage to allow for anything but an overload of absurdly-early coverage. It's already been underway for months.

Obnoxiously, some of it began the day after the 2012 election.

But I was reading an article Thursday night about some upcoming "key events" in the budding presidential race – things like a conservative conference in late February so in touch with the public mood that Ron Paul won their straw polls two years in a row – and wondering, who really cares?

The truth is, everything that happens in a presidential race up to – and possible including – the New Hampshire primary involves a statistically insignificant number of voters, mostly hard-core activists who hardly reflect the broader electorate.

Plus, we have no way of knowing what issues will be driving voters when they start seriously weighing in late next year.

Will they be up in arms over a meltdown of Obamacare, or growing more accepting of its impact? Will the economy be continuing to rebound or be heading back toward recession?

Will foreign affairs matter? How much will a gallon of gas cost then?

These are the types of things that determine an election, not a bunch of insiders chewing the fat with each other two years out.

So please, give it a rest for now. And thanks in advance for ignoring me.

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You can listen to Keller At Large on WBZ News Radio every weekday at 7:55 a.m. You can also watch Jon on WBZ-TV News.

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