Elections

Today, Tuesday, is Election Day in California. This ought to be a real sleeper. Predictions are being made that very few will bother to vote and that’s a shame. Why would you not vote? I don’t understand the reasoning that goes into such a decision. Especially now that you can vote by mail every time.

Our acting governor has been well coached for the past few months and someone took the keys to his Hummer away from him as well. He has made very few public appearances and those coaches simply let the two Democratic candidates make fools of themselves by default. All of this is going to come back to haunt them (one of them) when facing Arnold in the General Election.

Mudslinging is what the public says they hate in an election, but political analysts tell the candidates that isn’t true and the candidates are urged to go on the offensive early so as to generate excitement. The candidates, being politicians, love that kind of talk, so they jump in with both feet…public be damned! So what happened this year? Wrong kind of mud? The public just doesn’t seem to be motivated. Yawn…

I imagine that by the use of Exit Polls and early returns, we will know the results of this election by 9 tonight. And then it begins all over again as they prepare for the fall elections. I just hope they take the signs down for a week or two.