Dear God, please bring the end of the political season soon.
As my sub-head says, and the old rock n' roll tune said: Signs, Signs, everywhere there's signs...
I'm tired of seeing political signs littering the sides of the roadways, I'm tired of political ads chewing up radio time, TV time and leading to debates on the TV talking head shows and news seemingly every day.
Please just let it all end soon.
Seriously, I love a good political debate and contest as much as the next guy/gal, but I'm tired of it all this year. The signs were up months ago and just keep getting worse. The political ads, even for candidates that can't even rate a spot in the League of Women Voters sponsored debates (e.g., see Josh Rales, candidate for Senate in Maryland, or perhaps Lichtmann, also candidate for senate in Maryland) started running months ago and I'm just tired of seeing all of them.
It wasn't even until the last week or two that the so called and pre-ordained front runners in some of the contests started running their advertisements. Rales was out wasting (yes, I said wasting) his money since he seems to not even be pulling 15% of the poll numbers months ago. I'd never have heard of the guy if not for his advertisements, so I guess he bought a little name recognition, but sadly for him it seems to have done no good with those answering polls and indicating that they are voting in the primary in a week.
Meanwhile the number of signs for candidates continue to spring up and get worse. You drive down the road and there are what seems to be 15 - 20 signs all placed stragetically in front of each other trying to be "the one" that will get your attention, and trying to block the ones that opponents put up seemingly just minutes before.
Will those signs be taking down within days of the primary as required by law? Heh. The campaigns never seem to have the time/money to go back and do that work. Not that I blame people that took a loss and aren't in the mood to be out there doing it, but still, why should I have to suffer the eyesores just because they lost and aren't happy about taking down their campaign materials.
Will the advertisements stop? Well, actually yes, that will likely happen because those cost money and aren't budgetted for over the days that immediately follow the primary. Still, within a few weeks after they'll get back out and be bloodying up each other in the general election. Maybe those campaigns will be more fun, and maybe the workers will be more conscientious about where they put their materials, but I doubt it.
