Quote:"Despite a relatively low-cost local media market, more than $55 million in outside money has already been spent in North Carolina, and the race is expected to ultimately carry a $90 million price tag. This would make it far and away the most expensive Senate race in American history. While the state has been riven by local political controversies, largely because of actions the state legislature took under Tillis, the majority of TV ads in recent weeks have featured generic partisan arguments unconnected to local voter concerns. The outside groups pouring money into the state have done so with an eye toward the balance of power in the U.S. Senate."

 

There are so many things wrong in politics right now but the above paragraph from this story out of North Carolina speaks volumes as to how jacked up things really are.

 

I don't have regular TV so I haven't seen any of these ads but I have seen articles and ads online and it's ridiculous how negative it has all gotten. I know who I am voting for and slinging mud isn't going to change my mind. Sadly between these two there's not a good choice either way. 

 

To top it off we have outsiders putting ads on TV that apparently the candidates don't even know about, not for the "good of the citizens of the state", but for leverage in DC. This just makes me so angry. I don't know if this is a normal thing to happen as I don't follow politics very closely and haven't had regular TV in years so I haven't been subjected to all of the nasty-grams, so I'm a little naive when when it comes to some of this stuff. What I want to know about a politician and their record I read about online from various sources to get as fair and balanced a picture as possible. 

 

I have been highly mistrustful of politicians, corporations, lobbyists.....heck, all of it, for about 10 years now and stuff like this doesn't make it any better. The government is not on the side of the People and hasn't been for a long time. It's too bad we can't come together as a nation and fire all of them and start with a totally clean slate. None of the career politicians should be in office after this election. But that won't happen because this nation hasn't had to truly suffer enough yet for the people to affect change. 

 

North Carolina is a weird state.   It's currently controlled by the Republicans, but in 2008 it went for Obama, and is trending more and more moderate/liberal and less and less conservative.   In the western part of the state, where I spend a lot of time, there are a lot of houses with confederate flags out front and people seem to be pretty republican/conservative.   It's in the bigger cities like Charlotte and the university triangle (Duke, UNC, etc) that there are a lot more liberals.  The better educated people tend to be democrats.   But the Democrats don't seem to turn out for local or statewide races, hence the Republican control of the legislature and governership.    I have read some experts who say North Carolina will become a blue state in the future because of the types of people who are moving there.  

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