Two Things to Consider Post-Election Day 2012
Election Day 2012 has come and gone I couldn’t be happier. I’m not saying I’m happy with the results, I’m just glad that it’s all finally over. There are at least two lingering thoughts I’ve had since this whole 2012 mess began and in no particular order, here they are.
With Barack Obama becoming President again, you have to at least appreciate the fact that this means that in four years time we’ll have a new President guaranteed. I sometimes think of politics like the world of professional wrestling, but then again I often think of many things in terms of professional wrestling. When a champion goes into a match with, say, three opponents and it’s elimination style, the odds are against him. Should that champion be eliminated first or second, you’re guaranteed to have a new champion at the end of the night. That’s exactly how I feel about 2016. We will be guaranteed a new champion. So we have that to look forward to: The next four years of wondering just who will become the next leader of the free nation.
One person who could throw their name in the ring that I’d be willing to vote for right now is New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. During the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, a reporter actually asked Governor Christie if he felt like the Presidential candidates were there helping because of the election being so soon. His answer to this was something along the lines of “I don’t give a damn about the polls”, which without knowing anything else about the guy would give me his vote.
The second thing I think that needs to be addressed in elections to come, as a result of this election, is advertising. In short: Politicians should no longer be able to run advertisements. If you want to go online or to your local party headquarters and get information on a candidate, then go for it. If you want to slander people on message boards, by all means do it. But seeing the same messages repeatedly on the television did not make me want to vote (or not vote) for a certain candidate. In the end, they both just canceled each other out and felt very unnecessary.
A prime example here in Connecticut was the race between Elizabeth Esty and Andrew Roraback. The Roraback campaign ads alleged that Esty hates old people while Esty just had her liberal propaganda you’re probably used to from Democratic party ads.
I saw these ads more than the ads for Obama and Romney and you know what we learned the day of the election? Elizabeth Esty and Andrew Roraback aren’t even in our district. After months and months of these back and forth commercials, we can’t even vote for them! Now does that seem like wasted efforts or what?
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