Political Ads

As an avid television viewer who admittedly watches too much TV, I just wanted to take a minute to chime in and say that I’m glad the election is this coming Tuesday. That means that I won’t have to endure all the mudslinging political ads much longer. Since the majority of the local channels that I get are broadcast from New York City, many of the ads I have been bombarded by are for NY’s mayoral election. Michael Bloomberg is up for re-election and Fernando Ferrer is the challenger. If I were a resident of NYC, I would not know whom I would vote for. I’m not sure that either one of these men are right for the job. Billionaire Mike Bloomberg’s platform is centered on the NYC school system, and how he has positively changed it in the past four years. He maintains that the way to have this continued success is to let him finish what he started via another term in office. Freddy Ferrer’s claim is that he’s not a billionaire, “…he’s more like you.”, as one of his ads explained to me. None of the ads seem to actually get to the real issues. I’m rather tired of all the name-calling and mudslinging and will be happy a week from today when all these ads become just an annoying memory – regardless of who wins.