redbird: closeup of me drinking tea, in a friend's kitchen (Default)
( Nov. 2nd, 2006 06:55 pm)
The overwhelming majority of "vote for me" stuff that I've seen in the last two months has been from candidates for Civil Court Judge.

This isn't because the candidates for governor, senate, and so on aren't campaigning. It's because those candidates have lots of money, and are buying television ads, and I don't have a television. (I'm following the campaigns, to some extent, in the newspaper, and trying to decide whether to vote for Alan Hevesi despite the corruption charges, or cast a protest vote for the Green or Socialist Worker candidate [1].)

Nonetheless, I'm vaguely surprised by the almost complete absence of posters for the senate and governor candidates, this close to Election Day.

[This post was prompted by [livejournal.com profile] supergee complaining about having gotten half a dozen spam phone calls today. I've been spared those, as well.)

[1] I went looking for a list of candidates for that office a couple of nights ago, found a Wikipedia article, and fixed it to remove a spurious link from the Libertarian candidate to an unrelated Australian politician with a very similar name.
redbird: closeup of me drinking tea, in a friend's kitchen (Default)
( Nov. 2nd, 2006 06:55 pm)
The overwhelming majority of "vote for me" stuff that I've seen in the last two months has been from candidates for Civil Court Judge.

This isn't because the candidates for governor, senate, and so on aren't campaigning. It's because those candidates have lots of money, and are buying television ads, and I don't have a television. (I'm following the campaigns, to some extent, in the newspaper, and trying to decide whether to vote for Alan Hevesi despite the corruption charges, or cast a protest vote for the Green or Socialist Worker candidate [1].)

Nonetheless, I'm vaguely surprised by the almost complete absence of posters for the senate and governor candidates, this close to Election Day.

[This post was prompted by [livejournal.com profile] supergee complaining about having gotten half a dozen spam phone calls today. I've been spared those, as well.)

[1] I went looking for a list of candidates for that office a couple of nights ago, found a Wikipedia article, and fixed it to remove a spurious link from the Libertarian candidate to an unrelated Australian politician with a very similar name.
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