Maybe this should be in the Politics Forum but I don't think so. I can't stand either party's constant endless shelling my house with fliers, mailers, hangers, phone calls, tv ads, radio ads, etc. The non-stop same commercials over and over and over. All of them filled with half-truths about the other person.

I am so happy that Election Day is here I could scream!

I listen to these experts saying that the reason the candidates run negative ads is because they work. If so then everyone running should get elected from both parties.

I hear and see the millions and millions of dollars spent in just this state and I keep thinking what if all the money from all the states was combined and used for some really good purpose.

Maybe I'm alone but I doubt it. I never read the literature. I never listen to the phone messages left. I am forced to hear the crap on tv but I never believe it. In fact if it weren't for all the waste of time and money it would be great fun to dig into each and every half truth and expose it.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we had a DO NOT BOTHER ME WITH ANYTHING POLITICAL LIST that we could sign up for?

 

I don't think the Founding Fathers envisioned anything like this when they wrote the first amendment. Campaigning must have been very different traveling on horseback and giving speeches and kissing babies.. Unfortunately the media make all of this BS possible. Even when I was a child, candidates still went from community to community by train and gave speeches to those who were interested from the platform at the back of the train.

...glad it over, but it's going to begin again right away with candidates for president jockying for the primaries.. Lower noise level though!

 

Me toooooooooooooooooo. Every 2 years it's the same old

 

Gotta go, I'm off to vote. I hope that others like me are ready for some change. Thought I'd wear an "I voted today" sticker in to the polls and then just tell them "I'm from Chicago, what of it?".

 

It seems like it's the same every election. There is so much it makes me want to

I think the political ads, phone calls, etc. are worse than tele-marketers.

Oh, depending on the replies, this thread could end up in politics.

We did vote though.

 

We did as well. I've nothing against voting and making an informed choice. I'll watch a debate, read comparison summaries of positions, etc., and even listen to my wife - since we generally cancel out one another's vote.

 

Not according to an article that I read not too long ago. Election campaigns have been nasty and ugly from the start. Politicians cleaned up their acts briefly with the advent of radio, but it quickly went back to the same old mudslinging crap shortly thereafter.
I had thought that all of this stuff was a fairly recent phenomenon. But after thinking about it a bit, I can't think of any recent campaigns that have gotten any nastier than the Johnson v. Goldwater campaign of forty years ago.

 

"You know in your heart he's right." First time I voted and I've been picking the losers ever since.

 

I'm sure you're right about the nasty content. Maybe it was even much worse than now. I was referring more to the limited scope before mass media changed things. It seems to me that the insults that were hurled were made in a much more limited space than now; instead of being immediately spread around the universe on fast traveling networks, reaching millions more people. Even a factual faut pas is irreversable. And much of campaigning in this atmosphere is pure libel.

 

My parents did that for over 50 years!