For the first time in modern American history, the incumbent (that's us) will get outspent in a re-election campaign -- by some estimates as much as 3-to-1.What is it that the voice mail says? "We're sorry....."
Over the last 10 days of this month alone, GOP outside groups will spend $20 million attacking President Obama on TV.
Thank you for thinking of me. I've voted in every election I could since I was 21 years old. That's a LONG TIME. I'm not only a voter but also an active campaigner. I regret that my annual income barely scrapes in at five figures and that my savings balance is, um, hoo.....is that a MINUS figure? Guess so. What that means is my ability to fork over any more $3 contributions is at an all-time low! Live with it. I'm wondering if there aren't any billionaire Democrats? Can't they kick in a little more?
Sigh. The only thing I can see is for us pore lefties to STOP WATCHING TV. Period. Don't watch those freakin ads!! Turn the toob off until the next cycle of whatever it is that cycles in an election year. BITE THE BULLET. Sign up for Netflix and watch the streaming movies and TV shows a day or a week later.
And for sure, you can listen to tapes or CDs on the radio. No need to tune in for all the idiotic ads.
Just do it. We don't have to spend our hard-earned nickels and dimes to enrich some TV or radio station owner!! Bleah.
I HATE those American attack ads when it gets near election time. And it doesn't have to be a big election.... they even do it when electing a new ratcatcher. And the worst thing is that Canada is going the same way. So I just record anything I want to watch on the magic PVR machine and zoom thru the ads.
ReplyDeleteAnd anyway, is OUTSPENT a real word? I don't think so.
Outspent? Yes, indeed. It's been in the English language since 1652. We hang onto our ancient forms (Puritanism, anyone?) down here. *:0)
ReplyDeleteA magic PVR machine? See, you're WAY ahead of us.
Hmmm.... I looked it up in the Oxford English Dictionary (the only one that really counts) and you're right. But I still think it's a made-up word.
ReplyDeletehey, if Pepys and Shelley used it, it's fine. of course it's a made-up word. they all are.
ReplyDeleteand it actually shows up in 1586. (Can't read that wee print in my OED, even WITH the magnifying glass that came with it).
Every word is a made-up word. (Thanks for the laugh, Shammickite.)
ReplyDeleteOne thing about living in a state that is either definitely conservative or definitely liberal is that few political ads are wasted on us. We will be subjected to some, no doubt, as the election draws nearer; but, it should be nothing like those to which people in less well-defined states are subjected.
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yikes...just got another request for $$ from Madeleine Albright! wait for it....Bill Clinton's request will arrive soon.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if all that money spent is a good thing in an unintended way - a stimulus to the economy! Then again, few people are employed and nothing of value is produced by these expenditures.
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