Election day

[carrie721]

Originally Posted by skcin

Now what are you going to do to change things?

cast my worthless vote on election day and then bitch about it on the ledge thereafter?

[hayley]

Originally Posted by carrie721

hell yeah. every year it's the same bullsh*t. it's especially frustrating because i live 45 min from the cleveland metro area - i don't even know/care who a lot of the candidates are.

The worst was growing up in Kansas City- it's gotten so bad. Living in the metro area there during this time is so bad for a couple of reasons- the big one is that we get TWICE the amount of political ads as most places because the metro area encompasses TWO states- so we get the bull**** ads for the races in Missouri and Kansas. The second reason? It's KANSAS. So the ads are just insane- even the most conservative Democrat of all time gets attack ads for being an evil liberal who wants to kill babies and eat them for snacks.

[Sugar]

I was just saying to someone at work that things this year seem nastier than ever. Pennsylvania has a lot going on: Gov. race, the apparent probability of Sen Rick Santorium losing his seat, a some very tight House races, and lots of Harrisburg seats coming a year after the state legislature voted themselves a 16-34 percent pay raise in the middle of the night (this pissed a lot of people off and it has since been repealed).

Regarding vote-smart, we actually had a candidate say that he never answers the VS survey because it just gives his opponent something to use against him.

There's so much info out there. I just use Google a lot and try to find the points everyone agrees on!

I'll be glad when next Tuesday is over, especially since it's making work nuts...still, it should be very exciting!

[Beachwood Mac]

Every year campaigning gets nastier and nastier, ungodly amounts are spent and everyone cries about campaign reform until the election is over and then forgets about it until the next election. You can't weed through all the BS to find out what they really stand for.

Even in the small town I live in (population 27,000) we have a candidate for Mayor that has spent over $200,000 of HIS OWN MONEY on his campaign. He just moved into the city 3 months ago, no one has seen him at his so called residence and you get slick multi page photo fliers from him for a part-time position that pays $13,000 a year. WTF!!!