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As The Campaign Heats Up
Actually, the campaign is still plodding along, but the supporters on both sides are heating up. Minds will not be changed anymore, because each side is totally focused on defending both the good and bad around their chosen candidates, and attacking both the good and bad of the other side.
It annoys the hell out of me, because I see good and bad on both sides, but it's pointless to show the bad to the supporters, or the good to the opponents. They are entrenched, and for every argument there is an equal or greater rant. Political inertia can neither be created nor destroyed, but it can be converted into words - at roughly the same proportions as Einstein's equation: Words = (Facts x Emotions) squared.
It annoys the hell out of me, because I see good and bad on both sides, but it's pointless to show the bad to the supporters, or the good to the opponents. They are entrenched, and for every argument there is an equal or greater rant. Political inertia can neither be created nor destroyed, but it can be converted into words - at roughly the same proportions as Einstein's equation: Words = (Facts x Emotions) squared.
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How much is the politician lying?
Is the politician lying about things that are important to me?
To that end, I review Annenberg Political Fact Check (sponsored by a prominent Republican family's non-partisan non-profit foundation) and The St. Petersburg Times PolitFact (The St. Petersburg Times has a surprisingly good investigative reporting group; they broke the Robert Irvine Dinner Impossible fraudulent CV scandal--fluff, I know, but good work) services on a regular basis.
Candidates from both parties lie. Big surprise.
Republican candidates, though, lie more, keep repeating lies that have been debunked, lie about the character of their opponents and their own characters. If the Republican lies aren't coming in at least 3-for-1 compared to Democratic lies I'm surprised.