Most boring presidential election?

[Del Tachi]

For all you babies out there, 2012 was a lot less interesting than 2004.  2012 is about on par with 1996, which is generally considered by the Forum to be a real snoozer.

2004 is interesting for a whole host of reason.  Firstly, it was really, really close with the outcome coming down to a single state and a few thousand votes.  Compared to the real nail-bitter that was 2000, 2004 doesn't seem all that close, but looking at it objectively its one of the closest elections in American history. 

Additionally, 2004 will probably go down as the last "old school" presidential election.  Traditional media controlled the stream of information available to the American public (no Facebook or YouTube or Twitter quite yet) for probably the last time, issues surrounding Vietnam were still relevant, the Democratic nominees were two white men (a Massachusetts liberal and a Southerner, no less).  It really does seem like the end of an era.