not quite 100%...

In the last debate, Obama said that 100% of McCain's ads had been negative. I have a hard time believing that it is 100%, and I'm not quite sure why he was so sure of that, but I must say it has to be close to that. In my own little survey completed in my house, I have calculated a 100% negative advertising rate by McCain. I have received 3 mailings from the RNC or McCain in recent days and all 3 have been attack ads against Obama. Not a single one mentioned why I should vote for McCain.

Anytime I hear a radio ad for McCain, it tells me why not to vote for Obama. I rarely watch TV, so I've missed most of the TV ads. And I've heard the tales of the fear-driven Robo calls making their way around the country. The few people McCain supporters I've talked to have all told me why I shouldn't vote for Obama.

And I've been quite frankly scared of the tone of the rallies for McCain and Palin. They don't seem too concerned about keeping their supporters focused on the positive. Some horrible things have been yelled and nothing has been said during the rallies to address the bitterness and hatred. I just read that a Republican congressman here in NC said at a McCain rally today that "liberals hate real Americans." What is going on here? I have seen Obama several times stop the booing and taunting from the overly-excited and tell his supporters to just go out and vote because we don't need to do that kind of stuff.

I know that attacking your opponent is part of the political game, but even if I wanted to vote for McCain, I'm not sure I would know why other than the apparent fact (according to the ads and stump speeches) that Obama is a palling-around-with-terrorists, real-American hating, elitist, anti-plummer socialist (which, by the way, could have been, but was not intentionally, a direct quote from the Limbaugh show).

I keep telling myself, "two more weeks...two more weeks..."