Good Question
In an article I came across on realclearpolitics.com, Stuart Rothenberg ask's a good question:
"When Campaigns Lie, What Should the Voters Do?"
Now that both campaigns have lost all of their credibility by distorting each other's records and agendas, where does the 2008 presidential contest stand?
I'm tired of the bizarre distortions and half-truths, and of the endless platitudes. McCain, the straight-talker, isn't doing that anymore, and Obama is equally bad. Both are running blatantly misleading campaigns.
How stupid do they think we are? Pretty stupid, apparently.
Campaign distortions are nothing new, of course. But maybe it's the length of this campaign or, more likely, the fact that both Obama and McCain promised that they were different that makes this campaign so painful to watch.
When voters don't believe anything the candidates say...
As we saw last week, news -- real news, not controversies manufactured by the campaigns -- does have an impact on how people will vote...
Frankly, given the quality of the two campaigns, I can't really blame them regardless of their eventual choice.
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