As I was browsing my previous posts and looking at other peoples blogs, it hit me. Not once have I bothered to do anything on the up coming presidential election. Shame on me. Sorta.
When I say "sorta", I don't mean to come off sounding like I don't care about our presidential election, because I actually do care about its turn out. When I say "sorta", I'm more referring to how I've previously thought about writing about the election, but have been turned away due to the manner in which elections are handled these days. Every time I hear/see/read something about the election it's, a) something that has been said before by another news source, b) someone complaining about how they don't like a candidate, or c) plain old mud slinging. Don't get me wrong, I love a good mud fight...just keep it out of politics please.
This is going to be the first election I'm able to vote in. And I'm pretty stoked about it. It's like whoa. It's big. Its the thing that I've always wanted my teachers to tell me who they voted for, but won't. And yet, part of me still has this sort of resentment that politicians stoop so low. (Admittedly, I'm not surprised though). I'm pretty sure I actually watch less television during election season, just so I won't have to watch the candidates commercials. When I see an article in a magazine or newspaper about one of the candidates, I'm likely to skip over it, because it doesn't tell me anything relevant about that person. It kind of reminds me of third grade when kids would go tell the teacher because you said they had cooties. boohoo.
When I say "sorta", I don't mean to come off sounding like I don't care about our presidential election, because I actually do care about its turn out. When I say "sorta", I'm more referring to how I've previously thought about writing about the election, but have been turned away due to the manner in which elections are handled these days. Every time I hear/see/read something about the election it's, a) something that has been said before by another news source, b) someone complaining about how they don't like a candidate, or c) plain old mud slinging. Don't get me wrong, I love a good mud fight...just keep it out of politics please.
This is going to be the first election I'm able to vote in. And I'm pretty stoked about it. It's like whoa. It's big. Its the thing that I've always wanted my teachers to tell me who they voted for, but won't. And yet, part of me still has this sort of resentment that politicians stoop so low. (Admittedly, I'm not surprised though). I'm pretty sure I actually watch less television during election season, just so I won't have to watch the candidates commercials. When I see an article in a magazine or newspaper about one of the candidates, I'm likely to skip over it, because it doesn't tell me anything relevant about that person. It kind of reminds me of third grade when kids would go tell the teacher because you said they had cooties. boohoo.
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