Yep.
"Fifty-two percent of American adults tell the pollsters that the 2016 election is a very or somewhat significant source of stress. The survey was conducted online among adults 18-year-olds and older living in the U.S. by Harris Poll for the Association.
"For the past decade, the Stress in America™ survey has examined how stress affects the health and well-being of American adults. Prior to the release of this year's full survey results slated for early 2017, APA highlighted data that points to Americans' stress levels related to the upcoming presidential election.
"The Americans are habitually accustomed to all kinds of elections, and they know by experience the utmost degree of excitement which is compatible with security.
"Nevertheless, the epoch of the election of a President of the United States may be considered as a crisis in the affairs of the nation."-Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 152-3 (emphasis added).
"For a long while before the appointed time is at hand the election becomes the most important and the all-engrossing topic of discussion. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OjrthOPLAKMThe ardour of faction is redoubled; and all the artificial passionswhich the imagination can create in the bosom of a happy and peaceful land are agitated and brought to light...As the election draws near, the activity of intrigue and the agitation of the population increase; the citizens are divided into hostile camps, each of which assumes the name of its favorite candidate; the whole nation glows with feverish excitement; the election is the daily theme of the public papers, the subject of private conversation, theend of every thought and every action, the sole interest of the present. As soon as the choice is determined, this ardour is dispelled; and as a calmer season returns...who can refrain from astonishment at the causes of the storm." 153-4, emphasis added.
-Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville
"Fifty-two percent of American adults tell the pollsters that the 2016 election is a very or somewhat significant source of stress. The survey was conducted online among adults 18-year-olds and older living in the U.S. by Harris Poll for the Association.
"For the past decade, the Stress in America™ survey has examined how stress affects the health and well-being of American adults. Prior to the release of this year's full survey results slated for early 2017, APA highlighted data that points to Americans' stress levels related to the upcoming presidential election.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/15/498033747/survey-says-americans-are-getting-stressed-by-the-elections
Always been that way:
Always been that way:
"The Americans are habitually accustomed to all kinds of elections, and they know by experience the utmost degree of excitement which is compatible with security.
"Nevertheless, the epoch of the election of a President of the United States may be considered as a crisis in the affairs of the nation."-Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 152-3 (emphasis added).
"For a long while before the appointed time is at hand the election becomes the most important and the all-engrossing topic of discussion. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OjrthOPLAKMThe ardour of faction is redoubled; and all the artificial passionswhich the imagination can create in the bosom of a happy and peaceful land are agitated and brought to light...As the election draws near, the activity of intrigue and the agitation of the population increase; the citizens are divided into hostile camps, each of which assumes the name of its favorite candidate; the whole nation glows with feverish excitement; the election is the daily theme of the public papers, the subject of private conversation, theend of every thought and every action, the sole interest of the present. As soon as the choice is determined, this ardour is dispelled; and as a calmer season returns...who can refrain from astonishment at the causes of the storm." 153-4, emphasis added.
-Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville
