Right now, how much do you care about the 2016 Presidential election ?

[Miles]

Right now, definitely "somewhat". I'll probably get more invested when it starts up for real and we get out of the "TED CRUZ SEEN IN IOWA DINER" phase.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Right now, definitely "somewhat". I'll probably get more invested when it starts up for real and we get out of the "TED CRUZ SEEN IN IOWA DINER" phase.

More or less this, though I think the major candidates (Clinton, Cruz, Paul, Sanders, Bush, etc) who might run are interesting to follow. I could go the rest of my life without hearing "Liz Warren seen at a gas station in NH buying a Dr. Pepper for the road even after she said she isn't running. Is she running?" thread.

[IceSpear]

Very, since like 90% of Democrats I see our presumptive nominee favorably.

[Eraserhead]

Voted "not really". That's probably generous.

[tik 🪀✨]

Not at all.

When debates begin is when I will start actually paying attention.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Not at all.  Hillary is the presumptive Dem, there is no presumptive Pub, and no one is going to be trying to seriously change that until after the midterms are over.

[LeBron]

Not really at all right now, but after our focus gets off of the 2014 Senate and statewide races, I'll probably pick up interest in early 2015 when candidates begin to declare and I'll look forward to seeing the decisions of Kasich and Hillary.

I'm more interested in seeing who runs for Senate in '16 rather than who runs for President, but after all the speculation is over and done with, I'll strongly get behind Hillary, O'Malley, Gillibrand or whoever is the Democratic frontrunner and eventual nominee (granted it's not Cuomo or Schweitzer).

[Antonio the Sixth]

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Peaople should start thinking about a presidential election only after the midterms are over. There is no point in caring before.

[Lief 🗽]

Not much now of course. Once it heats up I'll obviously follow it closely. There are few things more entertaining in this day and age than a Republican presidential primary, as we all learned in 2011 through 2012. I'm looking forward to a lot of ups and downs, twists and turns, fantastic debate performances, breakout Herman Cain-esque stars, and maybe some beautiful election maps if we're lucky.

And then in the general, we'll get to witness a real, honest to goodness presidential landslide for the first time since I've been paying attention to politics. So I'm looking forward to that as well!

[politicallefty]

Not really at all yet. I don't really get truly interested until just before the primaries and caucuses, so probably not until 2016 itself. I always tend to find the year before a presidential election to be a drag. It doesn't really matter anyway since I won't be casting my vote in the primary until 2016, just like everyone else.

[Sol]

I obviously hope someone decent wins. Also, I am looking forward to the subsequent mapgasm. But I don't really care otherwise.