Politics of Hypocrisy

When a national political season in the USA gets close to the end in November the political ads become a deluge - but not in Oregon. Oregon has three main population centers: Portland, Salem and Eugene. All three are heavily liberal and thus control who gets elected both within the state and nationally. With the state firmly within the "Liberal" sphere Oregon almost never gets to see any national political ads. The Democrats don't want to spend money telling the three city "lemmings" audience since they vote for them regardless, and the Republicans do not want to spend money on closed minded "liberals" who are going to vote the Democrat ticket so they can tax the "Republicans" for things they never want to pay for themselves. So Oregon residents only hear about the ads from reports on them or via getting them off the web.

 

The ads tend to follow two main tactics: Democrat ads pick a single republican and paint the WHOLE republican party as acting just like that person; the Republicans take a specific candidate and point out what THEY specifically want to do and policies and point out what other Democrats support them.

 

This is where it gets to be ironic. Democrats ALWAYS point out that they respect each and every individual and say they promote policies to ensure that each person is treated individually - yet they paint the WHOLE Republican Party as being like the ONE person they do not like.

 

You watch 95% of the national, and even local political ads, from the any Democrat produced ad you can see the same pattern.

 

The old saying is that “actions speak louder than words” and by seeing the ad styles you can see through their action that they do not REALLY want to treat everyone equally - if you have an "R" or an "I" after your name at the polling booth (mailbox in Oregon, no polls!) you are assigned to the group of people who have no morals, beliefs, or compassion - but you do have the money they want to spend on others once they take it from you.

 

Overall the Republican ads attack the Democrat person on their record, their stated goals, and / or other Democrats that person supports and their goals.

 

That is a big difference.

 

So to those people in the other states; often called "battleground states" due to the equal division of votes of the two parties and thus not a 100% guarantee to put all their electoral college votes toward a R or D; I feel sorry for you having to TIVO through the ads or having to listen to their higher DB recorded sound level as you leave the room (done so when you do leave you can hear them through two walls). But if you do try and notice the difference between the two ad styles before you cast your vote.

 

Do you paint a whole party as being like a single individual as a D ad does, or do you paint exactly what that individual candidate has or will do like most R ads do?