Originally Posted by rubicon

Negative campaigning has gone on since the inception of our voting system so that much is not so different. What has progressively increased is the amount of campaign money spending, the reality that technology allows a wider distribution of campaigning, a biased news media who have lost their moral and ethical compass, too long a protracted timeline in which to campaign and most damaging campaigns that have added outright lying to their negativity.

Who is to blame? There is enough blame to go around but the voters must collectively protest their dissatisfaction with the campaign process, its lengthy timeline,and most of all the reject negativity in ads and demand factual accounting of the concerns and issues of voters to filter out the lies.
Because unless we remain the silent majority this will continue.

Personally all I need are 4-6 television debates covering concerns such as the economy, defense, taxes, spending and the candidates bona-fides.

In the end I blame us most of all because we ought to be marching in the streets protesting the detoriation of our election system.