I'm tempted not to vote. Admittedly, mud slinging political campaigns are nothing new, but, and maybe I'm just getting more sensitive to it, it seems that it has become nastier and more continual. I don't know what annoys me the most, the primary campaign for the Republican nomination for Governor or out local Democratic campaign for assembly.
The Republican contest seems to be about who is not far right enough. Any detour from the unthinking Fox News position is seen as degenerate, and the two front runners slam each other hourly.
At our local assembly race, it seems the only things these people haven't accused each other of is poisoning pigeons in the park and having sex with small animals.
The rest of the races and issues are just as bad, and quite frankly, I'm sick of the whole lot of them. No real problems are going to be fixed because they aren't even being discussed. Perhaps it is because these candidates haven't a clue about the nature of the real problems or their possible solutions.
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