Pathetic
It is Election Day, and I heard the Supervisor of Elections on the radio. She was giving the upbeat report that she was expecting voter turnout to be up to 30%.
I have already been to the gym and to my polling place to vote. Then I walked my dog and met a neighbor who told me his mother is totally turned of to politics because of the negative ads. For the first time, she is not voting.
I truly despair of my country when I hear that a member of “The Greatest Generation” has thrown in the towel and has decided to let a tiny minority of her neighbors choose for her. This is exactly what the political pros hope for: that only ten of us will show up, so they will have to only buy six of us…
Yeah but like all rare commodities, my price is going UP!-)
Truthfully I share your dismay at the tone and its results. But the numbers show again and again people remember the negative ads so it is only a matter of time before a campaign reaches for the mud:-(
1It has always been my belief that the majority of elections are determined in the primary and it is therefore very sad that only 22% of the voters decided what is left to deal with in November.
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