A Nonpartisan Proposal On Political Ads
Posted: October 1, 2012 Filed under: Whats left | Tags: Barack Obama, humor, Mitt Romney, news, politics, postaweek, us politics 19 Comments »
Want the job? Stay out of my football games. (public domain image)
Hey, did you know there’s an election coming up? Two guys are running for President of the United States, other politicians are running for office too. The campaign started seventeen years ago.
Perhaps you’re as sick of both the campaigns and their ads as I am. If you are, I’ve got a proposal to get us some relief.
Minds Are Made Up
This election will end in a little over a month. That one month will feel like at least a dozen. During that period, candidates will punish us with countless ads. Why? What have we done to deserve this?
Unless one of the candidates snacks on a panda during a debate, I’ve already decided how to vote. I think that most of us have selected the candidate we feel is the lesser of two evils. So who are these ads targeting? A minority who still feels the need for more information.
A Simple Solution
Candidates still feel the need to call their opponent names. A small group of people need a few more rounds of mud-slinging and name calling to push them in one direction or another.
Where can we match the politicians’ need to put out more propaganda with the undecided voter’s need for that information? Simple. Look to the cable television news networks.
There are cable news channels that cater to the informational needs of both major parties. What if we arrange for candidates and undecided voters to meet there? The rest of us, who feel comfortable that we’ve done our political homework over the last seventeen years of this campaign, could find entertainment without enduring the political negativity.
Politicians, get out of my football games.
The only thing more irritating right now are recorded political calls. Good idea..two thumbs up.
I worry that the ads and calls will get worse before they get better, if they get better.
We don’t watch TV and they haven’t yet figured out how to call our cell phones. I feel so lucky!
Don’t let them know you’re out there!
I’ve missed the majority of ads. I assume they’ve both given up advertising in New York.
We’re a swing state so we are getting pounded.
Beer on the train and no political ads. New York looks good!
My husband would happily trade it all for lower property taxes. (I, personally, am too young and irresponsible to start caring about such things.)
Or public access channels? Or Jerry Springer? Political season is one reason I am very glad that I do not have cable. They have yet to figure out a way to interrupt a DVD of Friends.
Yet…they havent figured it out yet.
Good points. I think most of us are sick of the whole thing and will be glad when it’s over!
The local public radio station has events where if they raise an amount of money by a deadline they knock days off the fundraising days. We could work that concept and end this sooner.
I am Hippie Cahier and I approve of this message.
You are sending our jobs overseas.
I don’t have cable so I only get my snippets from the little snipers off online news sources. There were a couple of words missing from this post…
“Unless one of the candidates snacks on a panda during a debate, I’ve already decided how to vote. I think that most of us (with common sense) have selected the candidate we feel is the lesser of two evils.”
*grin*
Bless you for offering a solution. Even we Canadians have decided how to vote. (Yes, our stuff gets interrupted for your politics all the time). Stop the insanity now.
Well, what if a voter is undecided and still wants to watch football and not the ads? There are plenty of those slackers who think it’s more important to watch a bunch of guys running after a ball than vote for president. Sure, one vote has almost no impact, but does watching football have any.
Ads of any sort is why the remote has a “mute” button….
Good point. I should join this decade an have a DVR too.
I just got back from a month in Ohio where they are running Obama and Romney ads back to back in the same commercial break. Suffice it to say I was not enlightened.