2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWould you like to live in a swing state?
Feel like your state actually matters and get visits from the campaigns.
On the other hand, you are inundated with advertisements that you want to take a brick and chuck it at your tv.
Edit: By in, i meant live in
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jenw2
(374 posts)zbdent
(35,392 posts)make it stop ...
treestar
(82,383 posts)And I don't think it's true that we don't matter. A swing state is only important because the blue or red solid states are solid.
TeamPooka
(24,254 posts)sorry swingers but not me....
So much excitement. Try living in a red state and you will know what I am talking about.
I'm next to a swing state and get enough ads as it is.
amuse bouche
(3,657 posts)Fl and have lost my mind with the right wing ads. I went and early voted last Sunday am. No lines no waiting
Kookaburra
(2,649 posts)"Make it stop" is right zbdent.
mnhtnbb
(31,404 posts)We have an unlisted phone so we don't get all the calls.
silverweb
(16,402 posts)[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]I'm already a wreck, even in the very safe Blue State of California. If I were in a swing state, I'd have to be institutionalized or on horse tranquilizers in the closing weeks of each election cycle.
Joking, of course... sort of.
sadbear
(4,340 posts)Texas will be purple by 2020.
Kteachums
(331 posts)I would love to live in Ohio where I could actually vote to make a difference. Here nobody cares and many do not even turn out to vote.
doc03
(35,364 posts)a few days ago we could watch a Pittsburgh station to escape the ads now that they have moved into PA there is no rest. The f----g War on Coal, I don't care if Obama declares coal mining illeagal Wednesday morning and closes every gd one of them.
milwaukeelib33
(140 posts)It might seem to some that it would be nice to get the attention of the candidates and have regular appearances, but trust me it gets old. I sometimes wonder why I don't pack up and make the hour drive south where life would be much less stressful politically.
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)Transplanted New Yorker to Florida.
GoCubsGo
(32,088 posts)Colorado, yes. Ohio, no. North Carolina, PA, depends on where. Florida, not most places.
forestpath
(3,102 posts)MadBadger
(24,089 posts)forestpath
(3,102 posts)MadBadger
(24,089 posts)dimbear
(6,271 posts)So, yes.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)oxymoron
(4,053 posts)After years in Washington and Oregon, it feels like my vote will actually make a difference. It's also been fun working for the campaign here.
TroglodyteScholar
(5,477 posts)But it definitely is nice to think about my vote actually having an impact.
JI7
(89,264 posts)at least the Dems are to fundraise even if we aren't a swing state.
but i'm glad we are solidly Dem. but we still deal with a lot of ads and crap with those stupid propositions and idiots like whitman and fiorina spending a lot on ads even though they have little chance of winning.
neverforget
(9,436 posts)Gore won but Bush came here too many times.
RockaFowler
(7,429 posts)It's horrible. And it's been bad since January. Non-stop ads since the January Primary. A whole year of this crap is unbelievable!!
quaker bill
(8,224 posts)TV is only watchable on the high number cable channels, even there the Mitt stuff has been creeping in as he looks for places to dump the last load of cash. At lunch in the office cafe they run broadcast local news, it is wall to wall Mitt v Barack, with a tad bit of traffic and weather and the occasional local pol with prostitute story.... I am looking forward to voting for the President first thing tuesday morning, and knowing the ads come down shortly.
I have a notion of finding a discarded Rmoney / Ryan sign and making a little work of art with it. Something along the lines of it crashing into the ground crumpled up a bit with faux smoke and flames. However, I have brand new energy efficient front windows (thanks to the Obama tax incentive) so I might reconsider.