As you all know political blogging is not something I generally do. Yet there is something about the up coming elections that really has me irritated. ItÂ’s nothing new, you see it every election, but as I pay more and more attention to the candidates the more annoyed I become. Mud Slinging. To me this is the absolute worse form of campaigning a candidate can do.

Instead of trying to sell me on why a candidate is the best person for the job, they are trying to convince me that their opponent isnÂ’t worthy of the position. Mud slinging gives me the impression that the candidate has no good qualities and must hide their inadequacies by making their opponent look worse. Lets take the Gubernatorial race in Illinois. The two leading candidates are the incumbent Rod Blagojevich and the challenger Judy Baar Topinka. I have yet to see an add to tell me what each candidate offers or stands for, all IÂ’ve seen is how the opponent is corrupt or incompetent. Now to be honest, the Governor race is looking like IÂ’m going to write myself in. Neither of the candidates appears to be anything worth voting for. I donÂ’t trust either one to run the state any better then Clone could.

Now today in the mail I receive a flyer for a challenger in the State representative race. It tells me how the incumbent is a bad man because he wanted to allow concealed carry. Meanwhile, all the ads and literature IÂ’ve seen for the incumbent tell me what heÂ’s done for the state and what he wants to do. Since IÂ’m obviously pro-gun and anti-mudslinging, this little ad backfired for the challenger. IÂ’m going to be voting for the incumbent. Which up until this point I was still up in the air about.

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