Thankfully the American people will only be forcefed political advertisements for the current races for two more days.  I couldn’t be more relieved to see crappy regular commercials make their triumphant return to television.  I don’t even remember what a newscast looks or sounds like without an election going on.  Watching attack ad after attack ad not only between presidential candidates McCain and Obama, but also back and fourth between Congressional hopefuls Raul Martinez (D) and Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R) and between Mario Diaz-Balart (R) and Joe Garcia (D). Both Democrats are fighting the incumbent Republican Diaz-Balart brothers for a spot in the House of Reps in Washington representing Districts 21 and 25.

What bothers me the most isn’t having my light-hearted television interrupted by three minutes of negativity for the sake of winning an election.  The fact that these local campaigns do not bother to form their own campaign message but simply ride the coattails of any successful messages that seem to stick from the presidential campaigns makes it not only overly repetitive but pretty confusing to viewers.  McCain runs ads about Obama spreading the wealth that seemed to gain some traction with undecided voters.  Suddenly Joe Garcia was labeled a proponent of spreading the wealth around.  McCain is a Bush clone? Now so are the local Republican incumbents. It’s lazy mudslinging and the voters deserve better than that.