Political Commercials

One of the joys, and I use that word very lightly, of living in New England is that our states are so tiny geographically that we tend to share TV broadcasts from neighboring states. This usually is a rather benign trait of being a resident of the tiny states, but when it comes to politics, it can quickly drive you right over the edge of sanity.

Boston is only an hour from New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and southern Maine. That's 4 states worth of political commercials. New Hampshire's primary is on Tuesday, so we've already been bombarded in the Boston area with their primary commercials for the past month. It's almost non-stop, and when you are so freaking sick of politicians, you get a break by watching the two competing Breast Cancer walks begging you to participate. I'm dying for some good old Skippy Peanut Butter commercials. You know, things go better with Coke? Please God, I can't take the politicians smarmy commercials anymore.

OK, there's only one who is really smarmy, the most repulsive Mitt Romney, former flitting Governor of Massachusetts. We suffered enough from this man, honestly, we do not need any more Mitt around. Make him go away. His commercials are shameful, their so full of innuendo and out and out lies. But we already knew that about Mitt here in Boston.

The rest of the politicians are remarkably keeping their commercials respectful and polite. That will change as we get closer to November, but for now, it's OK.

What bothers me is that other, larger states, only have to deal with their own state primary and then the commercials go away. But here in New England, we have New Hampshire as the first voting primary in the country, followed a month later by Massachusetts in February. So we've got at least twice the commercials as the rest of you, and that isn't fair.

In addition, the media coverage is so unfair towards what they consider as underdog candidates. For example, John Edwards beat out Hilary Clinton in the Iowa caucus, but he's considered the underdog, not her. Why is that? It makes no sense.

I'm hoping that Romney does poorly in New Hampster and tucks his tail between his legs and leaves the race. I know it's wishful thinking, but one less candidate, especially one that is nasty, is a good thing.

Comments

[Kara]

I. Hate. Mitt. Romney.

I'd love to see Obama and Giuliani on a ticket, but that won't happen :(

[Fairly Odd Mother]

Does anyone make up their minds based on the commercials??? I gag just a little whenever they pop on (like, every 2 minutes)----you'd think that in this day of great special effects and animation, someone would be making a commercial worth watching. Really, they all blend into the other!

[Caroline]

I'd LOVE to have a Mitt-vs.-anybody else race because when the heat is on, his plastic facade will MELT. He's so FAKE, beating him in the general election would be like shooting fish in a barrel!

[jenny]

My personal favorite is how, after spending 60 seconds talking about just how wonderful they are they then say "I'm so and so and I approved this message." Like it needed their endorsement.

ugh.

[bren j.]

I moved to the US from Canada in 2002. What's the one thing I hate most about living here? Election years! By gum! All the commercials! It's enough to drive the most sane person mad after only a week!