Off The Cuff

It Seems Like The Longest Election In History

Posted by: From Arkansas in politics on Sep 27 2008

Welcome back!

Every election year, the campaigning gets longer and longer. This has to be the longest election campaign in history. We have been seeing this for over a year now. And it’s getting pretty old. I guess one of the things that bothers me about the whole process is that there was a time when the conventions meant something, now they don’t. Campaigning used to be for a number of weeks, now it’s months and months. The next election process will probably start sometime shortly after this one ends. I am so tired of all the hoopla about which candidate is for what. And the reason for that is that no matter what they say now, it will be different later just like it was different way back when all this started in the winter of 2006, I think it was. Just check out what their faces look like when no one is supposedly looking. Don’t they all look like they need a colon cleanser from all the fast food and junk stuff they have to consume on the campaign trail? Believe me, if I had to be on the election trail for this long, I would be looking like that too. Wouldn’t you?

Are the candidates believable? Sometimes. The problem is that there is so much information out there now that it’s almost as confusing as it was when there was little to no information. Too much info can be hazardous to your intentions as a voter since not all of it is the truth. And what exactly do you believe? If you buy into some of this media hype then you most certainly will go for the person who comes out looking pretty good. That would be the one not being focused on by the media this week.

Is it fair for the media to sway the general public concerning candidates? No. But that is what they’re doing. Don’t you just love those polls that put one person well ahead of the other? Then some goofy thing happens and it’s all changed to that one. The reality is that most of these polls, almost all really, are so unbalanced and biased that they are of no use to anyone except the media. Polls are notorious for being a “small slice of the general public opinion”. Yeah right. Polls are taken from a tiny number of people and averaged. That proves NOTHING. It’s just convenient to the one who gets the gold star. The media is slanting the news and the election coverage to suit the ones heading up the companies that are in touch with certain politicians. It all depends on which politicians are powerful enough to weigh the polls in one direction or another.

If you want to be a conscientious voter, you have to do your research. Then you have to find out or decide which is crap and which is real info on what candidate. That’s tough to do. But it is more likely to vote responsibly if you do the research than it is if you simply believe all you see and hear on television or read in the newspaper or news magazines. Just remember, everyone has an agenda. They may not relay that to you, the public, but they have one. Be sure of it. When you know what that is, and I have my doubts that we will ever know most of it from any one place or person, then you can decide who is going to do the best job based on what this country needs at this time…..not your favorite just because they talk a good game or seem to have all the answers right now. That is not reality. No one has all the answers right now. NO ONE.

So go out there and vote responsibly!

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