Are Political Seasons Always This Ridiculous?

[d0rkyd00d]

elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/23 … rved-face/

Turns out a McCain supporter who claimed an Obama backer attacked her and carved a B for “Barack” into her face was lying.

Are political seasons always filled with crazy and outrageous things like this? This is the first one I’ve followed, so I’m curious if this is the norm…

[Peter_Kropotkin]

As far as political campaigns go, this has been relatively moderate.
2000 was worse, 1972 was bad, and 1968 was pretty bad.

Going back into past elections, in 1948 in Texas, one guy got elected, perhaps LBJ
by calling his opponent, a ready for this, " A HETROSEXUAL". Won the election by 20 points.

Actually if you look into the 19 century, elections were far worse. Perhaps the 1880 one was the worst,
with charges of children out of wedlock, being the most modest one.

Kropotkin

[d0rkyd00d]

@Peter Kropotkin

As far as political campaigns go, this has been relatively moderate.
2000 was worse, 1972 was bad, and 1968 was pretty bad.

Going back into past elections, in 1948 in Texas, one guy got elected, perhaps LBJ
by calling his opponent, a ready for this, " A HETROSEXUAL". Won the election by 20 points.

Actually if you look into the 19 century, elections were far worse. Perhaps the 1880 one was the worst,
with charges of children out of wedlock, being the most modest one.

Kropotkin

Thanks for the response Peter. Do you, or does anybody else, have anecdotes they’ll share about what they’ve seen in past elections?

Like what went on in 2000?

[Xunzian]

cracked.com/article_16680_5- … mehow.html

[d0rkyd00d]

@Xunzian

http://www.cracked.com/article_16680_5-presidential-elections-even-dumber-than-this-one-somehow.html

Thanks for the link.

[Mr_Reasonable]

Ri-what?-ulous?

[sdwilson2002]

@d0rkyd00d

@Peter Kropotkin

As far as political campaigns go, this has been relatively moderate.
2000 was worse, 1972 was bad, and 1968 was pretty bad.

Going back into past elections, in 1948 in Texas, one guy got elected, perhaps LBJ
by calling his opponent, a ready for this, " A HETROSEXUAL". Won the election by 20 points.

Actually if you look into the 19 century, elections were far worse. Perhaps the 1880 one was the worst,
with charges of children out of wedlock, being the most modest one.

Kropotkin

Thanks for the response Peter. Do you, or does anybody else, have anecdotes they’ll share about what they’ve seen in past elections?

Like what went on in 2000?

I remember the 92 election best. Ross Perot, a millionaire business man, got himself on the ballot. He bought half hours commercials on TV and the people loved him. He had the lead for a few weeks over Bush 1 and Clinton. He took the country by storm by showing pie charts about how much money we would make if he were president. He fell behind, though. He appeared in a flash then disappeared. For a few weeks he was positioned to be the next president. He was going to take 33% of the vote to Clinton and Bush’s 30%, but he made some gaffes on TV, the newness of him faded, and he finished with maybe 5%. It was a lot like the rise and fall of Palin in this race. The people were in love with him, then they weren’t.

[d0rkyd00d]

@sdwilson2002

I remember the 92 election best. Ross Perot, a millionaire business man, got himself on the ballot. He bought half hours commercials on TV and the people loved him. He had the lead for a few weeks over Bush 1 and Clinton. He took the country by storm by showing pie charts about how much money we would make if he were president. He fell behind, though. He appeared in a flash then disappeared. For a few weeks he was positioned to be the next president. He was going to take 33% of the vote to Clinton and Bush’s 30%, but he made some gaffes on TV, the newness of him faded, and he finished with maybe 5%. It was a lot like the rise and fall of Palin in this race. The people were in love with him, then they weren’t.

It seems being under the scrutiny of every news organization on the planet doesn’t leave much room for error, which is a big reason why I think Obama won this race. He hardly slipped up at all in portraying change, whereas McCain repeatedly produced soundbytes that worked against him.