Things appear to have ground to a typical summer halt.
So, we're going to take a trip around the world to see what other elections are going on.
THAILAND
The Bangkok Post is reporting that Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont plans to hold an election this year.
He has been the interim prime minister of Thailand since a coup last year.
JAPAN
The Japanese people will elect members to the House of Councillors, the Japanese upper house, on July 29.
Members serve six year terms in the HofC, but elections fall every three years, with half of them up for re-election each time.
They use a proportional representation model, with most of the members coming from ridings and the rest coming from lists made by the parties, ensuring equal representation. Very much like the proposed MMP model we'll have a referendum on in October.
ARGENTINA
The Telegraph is reporting that Nestor Kirchner, the president of Argentina, will not run for re-election in October, even though he is allowed to serve another term.
Instead, his wife, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, will run.
According to the Telegraph article, "analysts have suggested that Mr Kirchner's move is to allow him to return to power for a further term in 2011. Under Argentine law, a president must stand down after two consecutive terms."
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
It's entirely possible Canada's next federal election will precede the next U.S. election on November 4, 2008, but right now, no one actually has a clue.
The Democrats currently have eight people running to represent the party as presidential candidates. The Republicans have 21 people who have filed their intentions with the Federal Elections Commission. Four others have exploratory committees trying to figure out if there would be any reason to run.
In other words, don't bother following it until that field gets narrowed down a bit.
The Democrats will officially crown their presidential and vice-presidential candidates at their convention between August 25 and 28, 2008. Their first vote in the long road to the final convention is expected to take place on January 14, 2008.
The Republicans will choose their hopefuls at their convention between September 1 and September 4, 2008. The Republicans will also hold their first vote on January 14.
It's a very confusing system, but we'll look at it in more depth in the new year.
CANADA
The House of Commons is out for the summer. Even when they get back, it doesn't look like an election call will be coming.
The government has passed the Fixed Election Dates Bill, and, according to that, the next election will be October 19, 2009. Unless, of course, the government loses the confidence of the house.
That doesn't appear likely to happen since it would need to be in the interest of the other parties.
As Conservative MP Peter Van Loan told Simcoe.com last month, "What we’ve found so far is that in one month it may look good for the Bloc Quebecois and not so good for the Liberals and the NDP. The next month, the Liberals are on a roll, but the NDP’s in trouble, so they don’t want an election. It’s probably not going to happen unless we’re doing very badly in the polls, and we’re not."