Well there has been a slightly more important US politics story for the media to cover of late - Edit 1
Before modification by snoopcester at 07/11/2012 10:20:45 PM
But as you note, it might not be a bad thing... yeah, would be essentially impossible to campaign while being Secretary of State. Which is making me wonder what it says about the office of President that that one CAN be combined with campaigning...
After I posted it did occur to me that the reason she wasn't at the Democrat convention is that only the President and Vice President in the executive branch are allowed to get involved in partisan politics (or at least that was the reason I saw given)
And the President would usually expect not to have to fight a primary campaign before the actual election campaign. So it is slightly different... but still, I can't imagine Obama has got much actual Presidenting done over the last few months