I've been watching a lot of the returns for the state of Alabama tonight, and was wondering about other states. In Alabama, we almost never hear anything from the candidate about themselves. We have candidates partnering up with their next worst enemy to try to defeat the other candidates and just "slinging mud" and telling half truths, etc. Since I've lived in Alabama for nearly 30 years, I haven't experienced an election from another state since Reagan beat Carter. I was wondering if this sort of campaigning is normal in other states, or are we just not that civilized here in the deep south.
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Same crap here. It's now unimortant what a candidates policies are, only that the opponent is clearly too liberal or too conservative (depending which party primary is being contested), based on some obscure but complex position taken years ago.
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Wish we had none of the above on the ballot. The mud slinging is so bad in CA. They all lie.
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In addition to mudslinging, we have legislation by ballot, and obscuring the real motives behind a ballot initiative has become as refined as denigrating one's opponent, though some sponsors are less skilled than others.Comment
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I've always wondered how people could vote for someone that badmouths his opponent. When it comes time to vote all the candidates are guilty. You would think that not resorting to that kind of campaign would give a candidate some "class". It gets pretty bad in Florida.
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Seems it has come down to picking the 'lesser of 2 evils' and that's not easy to determine.Don, aka Pappy,
Wise men talk because they have something to say,
Fools because they have to say something.
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It is dirty here in Georgia. My policy on voting now has changed. If a candidate is incumbent he does not get my vote. Maybe a new face will not have as much dirty laundry or have as many special interest ties.
Enough said by me.
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It's funny how politics often works. There's an old cliche about how all politics is local, which is quite true. It's also the case that most of us cast our votes for candidates based on a pretty narrow set of the issues that most effect us individually. Most of us aren't very good at trying to assess the whole picture.
It's also often easier and less dangerous to badmouth an opponent than to take a stand, especially when you know you're probably going to have to rethink that stand if you ever get elected. Most aspiring politicians find, much to their surprise, that the reality of holding office is much different than it appears from the outside. The Governator certain found this out. If Meg Whitman is elected in California, so will she. Let's not forget Jesse Ventura, who apparently had a tough time in Minnesota.
I'm not fond of candidates that badmouth their opponents. When they do explain their plan, it had better be pragmatic. Adherence to the party line on either side doesn't do much for me these days. Life just isn't that simple.Comment
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Jeff
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Yeah, but that wasn't his fault, it was the "Media Jackals"!
Personally, with Republicans in charge of one house, Democrats in control of the other, an "Independent" Jesse in the Governor's mansion (except I think he stayed on his hobby farm), there was little in the way of new legislation being passed, but several billion in budget surpluses being mailed back to tax payers. Those days don't looks so bad right now
Okay, I was kidding, but I sure wish we weren't looking for ways to scrounge up $4 billion here or $5 billion there year after year these days...Comment
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Boy, it would have to be a sweep in order to work. Remember the "Contract With America" gang who were voted in? The were all hustled into their respective party's meeting rooms and told in no uncertain terms that if they didn't do as told by the heirarchy that their constituents would be cut off from funds.
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If 27 states vote out their imcumbents and the remaining 25 keep theirs... doesn't that give the imcumbents a huge advantage as far as committee chairs etc?Rand
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