Politics in Review

Every time another election rolls around, our televisions and radios, newspapers and front lawns are covered in political ads that are meant to sway our votes one way the other. Well I say we call it what it really is, OVERKILL. This business of plastering your name everywhere you can buy space is just too much. If that's not enough, i dont remember the last time i saw a political ad that actually told me what a candidate stood for without trying to defame his/her opposition. This in turn leads the opponent to run an equally offensive and almost childish ad until we start calling people witches and nazis. Why can't a campaign just be run honestly and honorably. These ads don't do anything but make the candidates seem so insecure in their own agenda, that they have to make sure you know just how bad their opponent is and not how great they are. I garuntee that after 6 months of horrible campaign ads, the only thing that is actually determined is that less people show up to the polls on election day. I truly believe that if a candidate ran on his/her agenda alone, without running a single negative ad, the polling numbers would be truly surprising in a positive way. Do I think this will happen anytime soon? Probably not. But it sure is fun to wonder, and someday maybe we will find out. But until then, we will have to continue to watch our country's two main party throw pot shots at each other, always in the end, forcing us to choose the lesser of two evils instead of the better of two good legitimate choices...here's to election day, and the end of 24/7 political slandering for another year.