Alabama state politices are pathetic and childish.

[StageLeft]

Are all states like this? The recent governor's race and race for Lt. Governor and what not has people from each side paying for ridiculous ads putting down the other guy. I've never seen politics anything like this in Canada. Here is an example:

Siegelman ad claims that "Riley didn't pay taxes for 8 years". Is this true? Yes, BUT:

Riley ad then says "I did pay the taxes. Call the tax man. Siegelman is lying." Is this true? Yes BUT:

Siegelman then makes a new ad saying "He only paid his taxes after 8 court orders."

Another example. Some chick is running for LT. governor and the guy running against her said "While cutting the budget she asked for a 500% increase in travel budget visiting various resorts around the country." Sounds bad doesn't it? Well it's not because she then said that she returned 80% of her travel budget and this other guy saying she is a bad person went to resorts just like her.

Then the final straw yesterday there was a banjo song or something I heard made against riley and part of the lyrics are "Riley...acting all phony! Riley...riding on a pony!"

Personally I think it's irresponsible to vote based upon what you see on these ridiculous ads. They are freaking pathetic and I just roll my eyes that it's actually allowed.

 

[Fausto]

Yep. Every state is like that. The majority of the ads are totally misleading digs at opponents. My favorite is one of the republican ads here in GA where he chastises his democratic opponent for "voting with Ted Kennedy X number of times!" *gasp!*. Uh...newsflash dipsh*t: they're both democrats.....that might explain the overlap in voting records.

I'll be a happy camper once the damn elections are over so I don't have to watch any more of these campaign ads. :|

 

[FeathersMcGraw]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Are all states like this? The recent governor's race and race for Lt. Governor and what not has people from each side paying for ridiculous ads putting down the other guy. I've never seen politics anything like this in Canada. Here is an example:

Those are less state policies than political ads.

And I expect that there will be a lot of those type of attack ads nationwide this year, given that control of the U.S. Senate is at stake based on the senatorial election outcomes.

 

[rudder]

Here in Tennessee, its getting physical! Handshake Incident

 

[Parrotheader]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Then the final straw yesterday there was a banjo song or something I heard made against riley and part of the lyrics are "Riley...acting all phony! Riley...riding on a pony!"

ROFLMAO! I heard that one on the way home yesterday and almost wrecked my car I was laughing so hard, not just because of how stupid it was, but because of how low it had sunk. Alabama can sling mud with the best of them, but this election has been by far one of the worst I can ever remember. I can't wait until the elections are over so I can get back to REGULAR commercials. God that will be refreshing.

 

[CurtCold]

Sounds about like the AR court system here......
There is a Democrat Political ad that starts out as the beginning of the Rep. Mike Huckabee add (that the democrats ripped), and then insert there little statistics......pretty funny if you ask me.....
Anyhow law around here is a friggn' joke. Pizzes me off...but that's another story

 

[klah]

Originally posted by: Fausto1
Yep. Every state is like that. The majority of the ads are totally misleading digs at opponents. My favorite is one of the republican ads here in GA where he chastises his democratic opponent for "voting with Ted Kennedy X number of times!" *gasp!*. Uh...newsflash dipsh*t: they're both democrats.....that might explain the overlap in voting records.

I'll be a happy camper once the damn elections are over so I don't have to watch any more of these campaign ads. :|

The Barr/Linder ads were pretty funny though.

 

[BoberFett]

Kill all politicians and lawyers. The US will be a much better place.

 

[Brutuskend]

Welcome to america..........

Give's one faith in the system HUH?

 

[vi edit]

There's two good ones here in Iowa.

One republican candidate running for Senator was hiring actors from California and having them pose as "concerned Iowan's" on commercials. He was ratted out

Another republican, running for congress, is using this as his slur campaign - The Democrat that he's running against, is an advocate of embryotic stem cell research. He thinks that it may be the future of major medical break throughs. Well, apparently some episode of X-Files had some little spiel on it about stem cell research. Now, the Republican candidate is running an ad on TV claiming how completely "out there" the Democratic candidates stances are since they appeared on an X-Files episode.

 

[Electric Amish]

WTF is a

politices

???

Is like Canadian for politics or something????

amish

 

[MrBond]

I'm living in northern indiana till december for an internship, but still keeping my Ohio residency (so I vote there). I do get to observe the race for the House seat up here between Jill Long Thompson and Chris Chocola though, and it's turning out to be pretty funny.

Chocola ran one ad about how Thompson voted to "Raid social security" 7 times, but every ad since then he's ran (regardless of content) has had "Remember, she voted 7 times to raid social security" tacked onto the end. It cracks me up, its like those elections we used to do for class president back in grade school. "Remember, don't vote for jimmy because he took TWO cookies yesterday!".

Then you get Thompson comparing Chocola's company to Enron with no basis whatsoever apparently (all south bend stations pulled the ad). Then Chocola fires back with an ad stating Thompson claimed some tax credit she wasn't allowed to claim for 8 years in a row.

I love close races, the mudslinging is always so much fun to watch

I love close elections,

 

[dullard]

I really dislike the ads, but its a political reality the the person who spends the most on the ads usually wins. It is just another way of keeping the rich in power, so they can stay richer. Sure there are exceptions where a wealthy person lost (like Ross Perot) - but this is a rare exception and Perot had no chance since he wasn't Republican or Democrat and the majority of people won't vote outside their party.

I'd love to see a law passed that the only allowable ads show compare/contrast information on current issues. Ads like:
Canidate X / Canidate Y
Wants to keep taxes the same/Wants to cut property tax but will raise sales tax when a shortfall appears
Pro-choice/Pro-life
Supports death penalty/ Supports death penalty
Opposes the important local bond issue/Supports the important local bond issue
etc.
Ads like this are informative, will show the public what the canidate will vote for, etc. But we all know this dream of mine will never happen. Then we can make educated votes on whatever issues that we personally find important.