decision at the eleventh hour
Tossing and turning, the debate goes on in my head of whether or not I will do my civic duty tomorrow. I mentioned my discord to someone and the response was, "Why bother?" I can understand the disillusionment because with the advertising Ad-War that has preceded tomorrow, and still going on even at the eleventh hour.
In fact, I usually like to go out to vote early, that one-week period you have to go to a special designated area to vote, but kept putting it off because I wasn't sure what I was doing yet. I still hadn't completed my 'research' on the candidates I am interested in. I have listened to a few debates on my local station. Read a few commentaries and there is one thing that happens everytime I begin to listen, or read, I am attentive, then my eyes glaze over, then all I hear is "blah, blah, blah...." sorry to say but they all spew the same rhetoric. I've heard it all before. I've seen the same type of song and dance and it's very tiresome.
There's the candidate who used to be chums with the President, suddenly even when the President comes to town, he's MIA and you have even the members of his own party who is running against him, teasing him, calling him out on it.
Then you have the candidate who dug up stuff about some party, a scandilous one at that, supposedly, that her arch rival attended. He claimed he didn't. "Well, you must support it because they're using your name" is the come back to the response he gives. I'm sure he probably wants to stick his tongue out and taunt her, but restrains himself, In a way I wish they had resorted to school yard tactics, It might just have been more interesting than the usual crap.
Oh and there's the other candidate who sent a mailer out to everyone with pictures that if my child opens the mailbox, well, lets just say, it was very tacky. And it's done all in the name of painting the other party dirty. How can we the public vote for someone with no values? After all look what they do in their spare time.
Yep, politics as usual.
Then they wonder why they lose voters.