The print industry has also benefitted, pumping out hundreds of millions of flyers, brochures, postcards, and door hangers, which are delivered almost daily in the swing states--and then quickly recycled.
At the local level, we're seeing million-dollar campaigns, primarily funded by every kind of lobbying group known to mankind--and a few that don't seem to have any earthly reason for existence, except to buy an election.
It's now about two weeks before the election. For a week after the election we'll hear all the pundits try to explain what happened and why. And, they'll all be wrong.
Sometimes, being bathed by the wisdom of the Founding Fathers' that all views should be heard, even the ones we disagree with, even the ones that may not be truthful, may be more than any citizen should have to endure.
In the meantime, we can block out the advertising attack and the sounds of blather by candidates, their followers, and the pundits by listening to the music of bells--and by people crushing each other for the right to buy whatever it is that we're told is this year's latest "must-have" gift, being fully aware that truth in advertising is equally elusive for both seasons.
[Dr. Brasch's latest book is Before the First Snow: Stories from the Revolution. His forthcoming book is Fracking Pennsylvania: Flirting with Disaster. Assisting on this story was Rosemary Brasch.]
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