"We were really bored by it, " said Paul Miller, an editor at a gadget-focused blog called Engadget.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

And, if nothing else, Mr Bush, who in New Hampshire gave the impression that electioneering bored him, has shown that he really wants the job.

ECONOMIST: Humdinger!

Bored with Labour and far from convinced that Mr Cameron's Tories had really changed, voters picked the Lib Dems as their default choice.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

And they are already bored with an election campaign which, vastly expensive though it is, has never really warmed up.

ECONOMIST: Brazil