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Ohio is sick and tired of Campaign Attack Ads.
robert38-55
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This is life in Ohio in the final days of Campaign 2012: screeching TV ads, mountains of political fliers and endless robocalls. Buckeye State residents have had enough.
SUNBURY, Ohio — This is what it's like to be an Ohioan in the maddening final days of Campaign 2012:
A cacophony of screeching voices spew attack ads from television and radio, hurling words like "FALSE! DECEIVING! DISHONEST!," disrupting regular programs for up to 15 minutes at a time. Mountains of political fliers — glossy sophisticated sheets with invective stamped all over them — spill from mailboxes. Answering machines are jammed with messages from candidates or their surrogates, annoying some people so much they have turned off their phones until after the election.
Add to that the massive traffic snarls every time a presidential candidate comes to town — which lately has been every other day — and it's hard not to feel sympathy for the beleaguered Buckeye voter.
"All this attention doesn't make us feel special," bellowed Greg Schreiber, a 61-year-old retired electrician who meets his fellow electrician buddies at the Sunbury Grill for breakfast once a week. "It makes us mad."
There's a television screen blinking in the back of the eatery. But these days, owner Sarah Arrowsmith keeps it on mute. The relentless onslaught of political ads, she says, are driving her customers — most of them older, drawn by both the homey atmosphere and the 10 percent senior discount — crazy.
"One more negative ad and the fists will be flying," Arrowsmith said. "Or at least the dentures."
Sipping coffee at the counter, Hank Wessel chuckled at the irony of it all.
"Most of the time we are considered fly-over country full of country bumpkins who cling to our God and our guns," said the 68-year-old retired physician, wearing a baseball cap stamped "NOPE." ''And then every four years we are America's hard-working heartland when everyone is courting our vote."
This is life in Ohio in the final days of Campaign 2012: screeching TV ads, mountains of political fliers and endless robocalls. Buckeye State residents have had enough.
http://t.news.msn.com/politics/ohio-is-sick-and-tired-of-campaign-attack-ads
SUNBURY, Ohio — This is what it's like to be an Ohioan in the maddening final days of Campaign 2012:
A cacophony of screeching voices spew attack ads from television and radio, hurling words like "FALSE! DECEIVING! DISHONEST!," disrupting regular programs for up to 15 minutes at a time. Mountains of political fliers — glossy sophisticated sheets with invective stamped all over them — spill from mailboxes. Answering machines are jammed with messages from candidates or their surrogates, annoying some people so much they have turned off their phones until after the election.
Add to that the massive traffic snarls every time a presidential candidate comes to town — which lately has been every other day — and it's hard not to feel sympathy for the beleaguered Buckeye voter.
"All this attention doesn't make us feel special," bellowed Greg Schreiber, a 61-year-old retired electrician who meets his fellow electrician buddies at the Sunbury Grill for breakfast once a week. "It makes us mad."
There's a television screen blinking in the back of the eatery. But these days, owner Sarah Arrowsmith keeps it on mute. The relentless onslaught of political ads, she says, are driving her customers — most of them older, drawn by both the homey atmosphere and the 10 percent senior discount — crazy.
"One more negative ad and the fists will be flying," Arrowsmith said. "Or at least the dentures."
Sipping coffee at the counter, Hank Wessel chuckled at the irony of it all.
"Most of the time we are considered fly-over country full of country bumpkins who cling to our God and our guns," said the 68-year-old retired physician, wearing a baseball cap stamped "NOPE." ''And then every four years we are America's hard-working heartland when everyone is courting our vote."
This is life in Ohio in the final days of Campaign 2012: screeching TV ads, mountains of political fliers and endless robocalls. Buckeye State residents have had enough.
http://t.news.msn.com/politics/ohio-is-sick-and-tired-of-campaign-attack-ads
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The amount of signs is seriously insane. Who makes that stuff? I should buy a ton of their stock in 2015...
― Douglas Adams
All I can think of is "Don't you have jobs?"
Paul
Why, yes, they do have jobs. Waving signs for their candidates. Unless they are unpaid volunteers. :rotflmao:
I think it's awful that we elect someone for four years and have not much choice but to put up with them no matter how bad a job they do. :bang:
― Douglas Adams