Ah, the joys of living in a battleground state…

Sure, my vote counts “extra”, because the state is contested and I’m still on the fence, so these guys definitely want to sway me one way or the other…

However, the constant robo-calls and incessant ads are driving me nuts…  In fact, they have the opposite effect on me, I think.  Something to the effect that I know think the number of ads I get from a candidate is inversely related to the likelihood that I will vote for them…  See, elections are all about math…  Same goes for the negativity of the ad.  That is, the more negative the ad, the less likely I’m to vote for the candidate sponsoring the ad.  I abhor the politics of fear, and that goes for both parties.

Sigh.

Two other observations:

1. From what I can tell, the McCain camp sure doesn’t know how to use email effectively.  I get maybe one email a month from them and they still think I live in NY.  Not that I want more email, but, boy, I do almost all of my communication via email, as I suspect, do a lot of Americans in the under 40 age group, such that you’d think they would take advantage of the ease/cost of email more.

2. As for the Obama camp, I asked them a question via email and all I ever get from them is constant, uh, “spam” telling me why Barack is so great.  When I sent the question, I didn’t think it meant I was signing up to receive 2-3 emails a day.  I legitimately wanted my question answered.  There has to be some lackey staffer somewhere who answers the emails, right?  Don’t you think $150M/month in cash could buy some college staffers to answer emails?  Sure, I know they get thousands of emails a day, but you would think they would carve out resources to answer questions from people who are on the fence.   Maybe they should even let people check a box that says, “I’m on the fence, please answer this so I can make a more informed decision”.  Of course, everyone would check it…

At the end of the day, what do other fence-sitters do in order to come to a decision?  Flip a coin?  Ron Paul?  Ralph Nader?  Write-in?  Not vote?

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