MANCHESTER, N.H. — After more than a year of being inundated by ads, rallies, handshakes, and telephone calls, most spin-weary New Hampshire residents are nursing a lingering, late-stage case of political TMI — too much information. Way too much.
They made up their minds, weeks or months ago, and many of them are waiting for Election Day like a prisoner waits for parole.
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If candidates want more votes, why don't they make some donations to th Red Cross instead of pummeling us with ads from every media? I received four large mailings from the same candidate on Thursday! They would look more heroic and favorable if they sent a million instead of spent a million. How does a public servant job with average pay justify spending millions in advertising to get the job? This is out of control and it sours people against politicians. I look forward to Wednesday. Phew!
steve
weymouth
Steve, totally agree, Please make it stop! They'd do what you suggest if a couple of polls showed that making charitable donations would win more votes than the endless TV ads.
"Stubbornly unconvinced" means that the people in NH are smart enough to not believe anything that the Boston Globe says about the election or the candidates..Globe is very unhappy that it can't fool the NH voters.
I'm always amused at the people who come on here and bash the Globe. I don't mean taking issue with a particular article or point. But using a single article as an opportunity to generally bash the paper (..."smart enough to not believe anything that the Boston Globe says about the election or the candidates.").
But thank you. Just keep paying for your subscription so the Globe can stay in business for those of us who want to read it. Your contribution helps keep my cost down.
I don't believe the polls. Romney and Ryan will carry NH because even many Democrats are fiscal conservatives who know that trillion dollar budget deficits are taking us to financial ruin.
Well......It is Such a Tough Decision.......Should I vote For Barack Obama ......Or......Against Mitt Romney.....?????
While I voted for the libertarian candidate, I'm hoping Romney wins. Four more years of the sneering, aloof, none-too-grateful, and overwhelmed Obama won't lead us out of the enormous fiscal hole these politicians have dug for us. Obama gives the country almost no reason to believe the future will be any better than the past few years. And, who will he blame this time around? At least Romney appears energetic, happy, and optimistic. If a country is going to pull itself up by its bootstraps, it requires a leader who instills in them the sense that the we can overcome the challenges we face. Obama has been one long downer.
I appreciate the fact that these people are openminded adn it is a difficult decision when you are not 100% satsifed with either. However, there are some very large issues and some very clear differences. I would think that would be enough to move people by now.
Both candidates acknowledge that the economy is a BIG issue. What will one person do for the economy that the other person would not do? What actions would they take and would Congress back them up?
On the Social Safety net, what would one do and what would the other do? How would that impact you and your neighbors who need or may need services. Special ed, disability for the mentally ill and cognitively disabled, extended unemployment benefits, medicaid, medicare, disaster relief. Let's put it all in a bucket and call it welfare.
Then there is regulation. What will one candidate or another do? How will that impact corporate profits, jobs, the safety of food, medicine, products.
We can go on. The point is that we ought to look at broad issues, prioritize, and decide. We confuse ourselves when listen to the sound bites and focus on what we are against instead of what we are for.
Good luck deciding. I have made up my mind based on the differences I see between the party platforms as well as the men.
If ypu haven't decided by now you probably shouldn't vote.
What does not get said much is that there is a vanishingly small chance that New Hampshire's 4 electoral votes will play any role in the outcome. For it to do so would require (a) Obama to lose North Carolina, Florida and Virginia, (b) Obama to win Ohio but lose Wisconsin and Colorado, or lose Ohio and win Wisconsin and Colorado, and (c) Obama to win all the other swing states. New Hampshire is almost irrelevant.