After dragging through another election cycle I cannot wait for Wednesday. After the last, what, 6 or 9 months of campaigning I am dumbfounded to think the ads make any difference to the thinking person. It is beyond comprehension that this fabulously expensive campaign process can continue where one ad after another pops up for/against the propositions, or for/against a certain candidate. The ads are so lacking substance, so obviously inflated with hyperbole, and so efficiently edited as to be be accurately described as political fictions-- loosely based on a true story.
What I would give for a fully web-based campaign process. Want to see where a candidate stands on abortion? Go to the website where it is printed in black and white-- yes, no, sometimes and when. No more backpedalling about being misunderstood. Want to read a narrative description of what would happen with taxes in my administration? Go to my website. And, at the same time, television and radio campaign advertising would be ushered out the way of tobacco.
Wouldn't that be nice to have kids ask if you remember television advertisements for political elections?? One problem: Eliminating campaign media advertising would cost jobs. Good American jobs. How un-American of me to suggest such a change.
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