Tuesday, October 28, 2008

A Quick Gripe

We are now one week from The Election. 

Today our household received 4 pieces of mail. Total. And every single one of them was a political ad.

Today our household received 5 phonecalls. Total. One was Christopher calling home. One was a friend of mine. Three were political (and, as we've discussed, none of us are protected from those by the Do Not Call list).

I heard, recently, someone's response to the question "How do you think the American public will feel on November 4th?" The answer: "Relieved." 

When the surprised interviewer followed up with other people, it turned out that this was an overwhelmingly bipartisan answer. And, from what I can gather from friends and family and pundits across the land, that's pretty much how everyone feels about it. We all want to get to the 4th, go out and vote, and celebrate on the 5th when no political ads are on TV.

** REMINDER ** By the way, don't forget to go out and vote next Tuesday. After all, if we don't all go out and vote, then we'll have sat through the torturous process leading up to this election for no reason. I don't know about you, but I, for one, am not going to get beaten up for all these months without taking the chance to have my say.

1 comment:

Laura said...

Weirdly enough, despite living in Ohio, we have not had any phone calls. I got my first, from McCain, the other day but that is it.