The election campaign has come to an end and its time for people to vote. This article draws conclusions from the two major presidential campaign by dividing it into four broad categories: demographic trends, health care, the truth and ideological conflicts. What is your final view on both political campaigns?
I think that this article is fairly disturbing, I think my take away point for this election cycle is that lying is now a fully acceptable political strategy, and no one seems too upset about it. I am particularly disturbed by the fact that Republicans have done so much damage to Obama's campaign by simply lying about Obama planning to cut $716 billion from medicare, as well as the Romney campaign's claim that Chrysler is moving its production to China. Neither of these things are true, nor is practically anything else that Romney has said in this campaign. The Republican strategy in this campaign is a trap, pretend to be moderate enough to scoop up undecided voters, but never actually stand up for anything so that they do not alienate the TEA party. If Romney is elected, we can be fairly well assured that he will withdraw his moderate stances and simply capitulate to the conservative right.
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