ROGER SIMON: American Presidential Elections Are Too Long and Destructive for the Country.

We’ve come a long way — and not in a good way — from around the time of the Kennedy-Nixon election, when the conventional wisdom was that the voters didn’t pay attention to an election until the World Series was over. But that was an era when the news was still measured out in tiny half-hour amounts at night on television. And before politics became a substitute religion for tens of millions of Americans.