Silly me...bannination wrote: "I guess if this was a governmental agency or a business you might be right Mr. B. Otherwise that argument falls on its face."

We all know Vrede is "speaker of the house" and can't even be accountable for himself......

Silly me...bannination wrote: "I guess if this was a governmental agency or a business you might be right Mr. B. Otherwise that argument falls on its face."
Shoot...I ain't defending Tillis! My "attacks" are on the political machine in general.Vrede wrote: "I just don't get your inexplicable and inaccurate attempts to focus your attacks over it on Hagan while defending Tillis."
Yeah...getting older is a bee-yatch....but look on the bright side...these are the "golden years"....Vrede wrote: "It was no fun and I was more than a decade younger than I am now."
I don't know, without those signs I doubt most republicans would know who they're supposed to vote for.Mr.B wrote:Pilfered campaign signs rile Dems as Election Day nears
“But I think it is Republicans, and I think they're targeting Democratic signs in an effort to suppress our right to free speech.”
"Signs have been stolen from both parties.......but most of the logged calls were about Democratic candidates' signs."
Good grief, gimme a break... like the Dems are the only one losing signs.
I don't understand the mentality of why anyone, of either party, thinks that littering the landscape with political signage is going to convince someone to vote for that particular candidate.
Money has always been a primary determinant in elections. But for many years, raising money was within the means of a lot of candidates. You went out to raise money, and if you could get supporters, they gave you money. Since the total amounts that could be contributed were limited, you still had to raise money from a lot of sources to collect the most. Not an entirely level playing field, but acceptable. With corporations becoming people, the table is without doubt tilted to the interests of the major money, generally trampling over public or majority interests. On "person", such as the Kochs, can buy more influence than hundreds of thousands of regular citizens.Vrede wrote: If one's chief gripe is the money in politics and what it's doing to our democracy then Republicans, except the old McCain, and some of the Dems should never get a vote.
Yeah, right...bannination wrote: "I don't know, without those signs I doubt most republicans would know who they're supposed to vote for."
O Really wrote:"The only candidates who don't "run scared" are those who are unopposed and those who are stupid."
hahahhaO Really wrote:They're trying to avoid holding up a forefinger and looking like bin Laden... http://www.metro.us/news/pakistan-overt ... idzfIcYJU/
The post office has complained that all the campaign junk mailings have slowed down or hindered the normal flow of mail deliveries; the biggest burden being on the mail delivery person on door-to-door deliveries.
Hagan has spent almost $19 million through Sept. 30, her most recent disclosure available with the Federal Election Commission. Tillis has spent almost $8 million through Oct. 15, his most recent filing. Candidates who unsuccessfully sought the GOP nomination account for the balance of the candidate spending.
But it's the outside groups who have accounting for the bulk of the spending. The Democratic-backing Senate Majority PAC has spent almost $10 million and the party's Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has run about $9 million. The National Republican Senatorial Committee has spent almost $9 million, as well, and the business-backed U.S. Chamber of Commerce has spent $4 million.
In total, outside groups account for $72 million of the race's spending.
More than half of the spending has gone toward television ads. Each side has spent roughly $27 million on ads, according to the nonpartisan Center for Public Integrity's analysis of ad-tracking firm Kantar/CMAG data.
Look at the bright side: "all those spent millions" came out of the pockets of the money interests and into the economy.Mr.B wrote:I wonder who's going to be crying the loudest when it's finally over and all those spent millions may have well been flushed down the toilet ???