Their guy: Evil. Light on crime. Want’s to raise your taxes so they can spend it irresponsibly and give themself a raise. Just interested in getting themselves elected. Here’s an out of context quote from them, can you believe they said that! They’re going to destroy more jobs. They’re going to take away your rights!
They’re going to give illegal immigrants (who are probably terrorists) free jobs, free healthcare, a free house next to yours, and bags of money.
Our guy: Plentiful high paying jobs for everyone! Low, low taxes and perfect responsible spending. No more crime. No more defecit. You’ll get what you deserve and more. We’ll make sure you keep all your rights cause we’re not going to tell you what to do, however we’ll tell other people to do things you think they should be doing. Happy days are here again!
I have to say, the candidates in my area aren’t making it easy on voters looking to educate themselves.
Decisions should be made on issues and facts. What is the candidates experience? What are his/her plans? What are their priorities? Every person voting should be able to answer these three questions about every single candidate.
Yet half don’t have web pages, the half that do are mostly cluttered with irrelevant biographical information. One of the guys campaigning for State Assembly is simply running a home page consisting of a button to PayPal a contribution, I voted against the presumptuous prick in the primary but he made it anyway and now I’m trying in vain to like his challenger.
I’ve spent two hours with an internet connection and a mock election ballot and I’m beginning to blame my ignorance about them on the candidates themselves.
Judges are the most vulnerable. They see thousands of cases. There have to be some that went wrong. So you run an ad saying they let a dangerous criminal out on the street and get traction. I suppose any judge and prosecutor can be nailed by that.
Oh thank GOD, tomorrow is Election Day! We’ve been getting phone calls – with recordings. (At first they were just volunteers – I was only too polite. I had to bite my tongue from saying, "I plan on voting for the person who ISN’T calling me all the time!!!)
There is one local position where I was undecided, and I decided to let the ads influence my vote. Specifically, the goddam telephone calls with the recorded ads. I started keeping track of how many such calls I got from each candidate, and lo! as of the day I voted (early voting last week) the score was 12 to 5. I decided to vote for the candidate with the fewest phone calls, on the grounds that the other one obviously wastes campaign funds and thus will probably waste taxpayer money as well.
Good that you held your tongue so that they only heard that line twenty times that night instead of twenty-one.
Two years ago I got tons of calls but oddly enough I only got one or two this year. I guess whomever doesn’t think that my district has any close elections.
In Michigan our politicians are giving themselves " gold plated" pension and health coverage. Who can’t get pissed off at that? You know campaign ads can not lie.
Advertisers must believe that everyone has the memory of a goldfish because they like blaming Obama for a lot of stuff that happened before he was President. Obama seems to be running for every open office what with all the ads attacking him. I laugh at the rich businessman, Rick Scott, who likes to point out that he is not a politician and then talks about how he stood up to Obama - he’s not a politician so how did he stand up against Obama? Post something nasty on a message board?
Yep. I’ve been getting 2 calls a day for about the last two weeks, almost like clockwork, from the Michigan Republican Party, telling me how awful and RADICAL and XTREME the local Democratic candidates are and that they supported Bill Q-36 which would legalize the kicking of small puppies and I should CALL THEM and TELL THEM I DON’T SUPPORT THE PUPPYKICKING BILL and reminding me that I should attend rallies for the local Republican candidates and various things like that.
I’m working the polls tomorrow. One often overlooked benefit is that I won’t be home for the last gasp of bitter campaigning. It’ll be nice.
Hmmm,…I wonder if that might be a winning strategy. Run ads so over the top against yourself (as if coming from your opponent) that people vote against him as a punishment.
This year I’m half-tempted to vote for a candidate who might be a loon, just because his opponent’s ads have been so viciously misleading. And I might vote for someone (an incumbent) not in my party, because his ads have been positive. It makes me think that at least he knows what people want to see, that maybe he’s just a little bit in touch with voters.
Remember, there are still people out there who believe that “they can’t say it/print it/show it on TV” if it isn’t true.
