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By education and experience - Accountant with a specialty in taxation. Formerly a CPA (license has lapsed). Masters degree in law of taxation from University of Denver. Now retired. Part time work during baseball season as receptionist & switchboard operator for the Colorado Rockies. This gig feeds my soul in ways I have trouble articulating. One daughter, and four grandchildren. I share the house with two cats; a big goof of a cat called Grinch (named as a joke for his easy going "whatever" disposition); and Lady, a shelter adoptee with a regal bearing and sweet little soprano voice. I would be very bereft if it ever becomes necessary to keep house without a cat.
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Are we there yet?
Any day now, or at least sometime between now and bedtime on Tuesday, I may start screaming and I may not stop.
The overwhelming barrage of political appeals, insults, misdirection, "advertising" and so on is beginning to drive me bonkers.
Here in Colorado we are now being described as a "purple" state. I confess I've forgotten whether Republicans are red and Democrats blue or the other way around. This area has been traditionally Republican, but it looks like in some key areas the Democrats are gaining ground. We'll know more on Tuesday, or more probably, Wednesday. There have been several lamentable missteps by both parties in choice of advertising messages. They all are misleading, in my opinion.
One of the local TV stations has been broadcasting, as part of the evening news at 6 pm, a summary of the facts excerpted for various political ads. Almost every ad leaves out something significant, or misstates an important fact, and so on.
Clearly the overwhelming crush of political advertising is a bonanza for broadcast media, and probably for print media as well. But I wonder if the whole scenario isn't pushing the majority of the public towards the attitude that anything political is just so much bull shit, and there's no point in voting, because voting only serves to encourage more political blather.
I'll be interested in the outcome in several key races here in Colorado, especially the governor's race and the state legislature races for my part of the suburbs. But most of all I am going to be SO relieved that the political advertising is over for a few months.
Woodstock
The overwhelming barrage of political appeals, insults, misdirection, "advertising" and so on is beginning to drive me bonkers.
Here in Colorado we are now being described as a "purple" state. I confess I've forgotten whether Republicans are red and Democrats blue or the other way around. This area has been traditionally Republican, but it looks like in some key areas the Democrats are gaining ground. We'll know more on Tuesday, or more probably, Wednesday. There have been several lamentable missteps by both parties in choice of advertising messages. They all are misleading, in my opinion.
One of the local TV stations has been broadcasting, as part of the evening news at 6 pm, a summary of the facts excerpted for various political ads. Almost every ad leaves out something significant, or misstates an important fact, and so on.
Clearly the overwhelming crush of political advertising is a bonanza for broadcast media, and probably for print media as well. But I wonder if the whole scenario isn't pushing the majority of the public towards the attitude that anything political is just so much bull shit, and there's no point in voting, because voting only serves to encourage more political blather.
I'll be interested in the outcome in several key races here in Colorado, especially the governor's race and the state legislature races for my part of the suburbs. But most of all I am going to be SO relieved that the political advertising is over for a few months.
Woodstock
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