The ads, the ads, I'm sick and tired of the ads!

[phylny]

I'm not watching TV, but my husband is, and I can still hear all the damned political ads.

I live in rural Virginia between Lynchburg and Roanoke, and the ads are running about 3-4:1, maybe 4-5:1 in favor of Romney (with George "Macaca" Allen running a ton of ads, too). If I thought it would be effective, I'd write the television stations and tell them of my disgust, but I know the response would be that they don't "endorse" the ads, and it's money in their pockets.

If it's this bad now, I can't imagine I can watch any television in October. The good thing is, I DVR everything I watch, so I'll be skipping as many of them as possible.

My only hope is that people are so turned off by the constant negativity that they tune it out.

[Warpy]

1. I was searching the Roanoke area a few days ago

for someone who is moving there and happened upon the local newspaper complaining about the stench emanating from the TV sets these days.

New Mexico is no longer considered a battleground state, but we were in years past before we got 100% paper ballots, so I do feel your pain.

Since the ads are starting to invade even the Science channel on cable, I'll be switching over to DVDs any day now.

I hope the Koch brothers and their gang of merry fascists not only run into the law of diminishing returns, I hope they run full force into serious blowback from this poison.

[Tribetime]

2. That is the complete Rmoney campaign..same as the primary

He can just continue to phone it in and keep making ads. They don't have to be truthful, it only matters how effective they are. Money is not an issue, not with his corporate friends.

I wish Obama would show clips from the primaries with rmoneys oppnenets talking about his lying ads and how he outspends them 6-1 or more.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

3. It's bad all the way up to Delaware. I live in Maryland, but the D.C., MD, VA, WVa, and DE region

gets all the ads, too, as if we all live in Virginia. That's just the market area.

[NBachers]

4. Meg Whitman was an omnipresent ad presence in California- people hated it; she lost

I just got so sick of hearing her voice over and over and over . . . I hope this is what will be happening with the Republican ad blitzes.

[Chipper Chat]

5. Thank God for the mute button.

I use it not only for the redundant political crap but for the disgusting regular commercials like the Progressive Insurance cars being destroyed. And the ALEVE commercials where you can audibly hear the user swallowing the pills. YUK. Feel free to ad to this list..........

[phylny]

9. Mitt RMoney's voice in his ads:

"I"m Mitt Romney and I approve this message."

I don't know, he sounds creepy.

[nc4bo]

6. Same here and now the locals are joining in. So bloody sick of it

and equally sick of the tv stations who are rolling in the dirty dough.

And just think, we've got a long, long way to go before the insanity ends.

[GoCubsGo]

7. I understand.

I live in South Carolina, but get my TV out of Georgia. First, I had to endure the SC primaries. Then, it was the GA presidential primaries. Just recently, we had local and Congressional primaries. Unfortunately, the GOP primary to pick the guy to run against John Barrow is in a run-off, so the ads are never-ending.

And, all I can say to people who bitch about Blue Dog Democrat is that they had better hope that Barrow wins. Because, the two guys fighting to run against him are two of the nastiest fucks on the planet. They're trying to out-whacko their neighbor, Paul Broun to give you an idea.

[MichiganVote]

8. Truth: Restore Our Future ads in MI? I just change the fucking channel folks.

Get a fucking clue-we DON'T have to watch your overpriced BS and we don't. We throw away the mailers, we switch the channel and we sure as hell don't click on your ads on the internet. We hide or delete you on Facebook and any other social media site.

Because if there is one thing we don't need, its for you to tell us how or what to think. So fuck the hell off.

[moondust]

10. I'm debating whether or not to unplug the teevee for the next three months.

A disgusting waste. Kudos NBC for this:

NBC Nightly News' Brian Williams reported Thursday that spending on the presidential campaign has already crossed the half-billion dollar mark, breaking previous records for a campaign with more than two months left to go. Just for kicks, he also broke down what else half a billion dollars will buy, including:

-Food for 9.2 million malnourished children for 50 days

-Immunizations for 29 million children for life

-Clean water for 500 million children for 40 days

-166 million anti-malarial mosquito bed nets

http://www.thewrap.com/tv/column-post/what-half-billion-campaign-spending-could-have-bought-52421