You don't watch American programs with American commercials? If you do, you still get stuck with the year long, it's merely more annoying because it's not your election.
Lots and lots of American programs. I don't watch any Canadian programs. I used to watch the news, but I replaced it with some apps. But we don't get the American ads. They replace them with Canadian ads, including on the American networks. So I might watch a show on NBC, but the ads would be Canadian. But I record everything, so I just fast forward through them, anyway.
But we do hear a lot about the US election. Even our news reports on it, especially who won which primary. And my FB is full of American friends. It seems like most Christians are split between Cruz and Rubio on the right. I have yet to hear of a single person voting for Hilary. The Democrats are all Bernie supporters, and he scares me as much as Trump.
I was just visiting/babysitting at my son's for over a week. He is quite enamoured with Trump, and constantly had news stations on, plus all the town hall meetings. So a little too much for me, but I would have felt the same if it was my own country.
We just had the second longest election campaign federally in the history of Canada. It was 78 days. Because each party already has its own leader, so when they determine which party had elected the most MP's, the leader of that party becomes the Prime Minister, pretty much from election night on.
We had a lot of paid political ads on TV during our election. Occasionally, I might have stopped the fast forward to watch one. The Liberal party's ads were all Trudeau 2.0 about "change." Our country fell for Obama's slogan, which Justin stole, and we are living to regret it already, between the 25,000 "refugees" (apparently none came from refugee camps, but apartments and homes! Just Justin bringing in lots of Muslims to change the religious balance in our country to Muslim. No Christians were admitted! You know, the ones who are getting beheaded in the Middle East) and the billions he seems to have given away, including important things like buying prayer rugs and Qur'ans for the Muslims, plus fixing up the housing in military bases, since we have no housing for these Muslims! Of course, like in the US, our vets still go homeless. Very sad!
But I digress! I would hate to see Rubio and Cruz splitting the vote, and Trump winning on that basis. I just know it is a long, long time till the American election is over. Fast forward through the ads, is my advice!