A possible side effect of negative campaiging [View All]

[Bluzmann57]

Around here, there are some hotly contested races, both on a local and national level, House seat up for grabs and state house seats up as well. Not to mention governor's races in both Iowa and Illinois. And almost to a man (and woman), people are saying that they are getting sick and tired of all the negativity being thrown around. Both Illinois candidates for Governor are negative, to some extent, both Iowa first district candidates are negative, although the repubs are really really bad and makde no apologies about it, a couple of state house races have gotten negative, and so on. So now, people are so sick and tired of it, they are talking about not even voting. It is conventional wisdom that huge turnout equals wins for the Dems, so maybe that is part of the reason the repubs are so negative. But to tell you the truth, I am getting to the point where I can't really say as I blame people for being disgusted. Enough is enough.