It’s crunch time. Less than 30 days remain until we head to the polls to vote for President down to School Board—unless you’re joining Maine’s growing absentee voting movement (click here to request your absentee ballot online).
It’s tough to escape the onslaught of campaign activity: glossy mailers, fundraising letters, TV ads, YouTube videos, press releases, Main Street walks, door knocks, phone banks, literature drops, sign campaigns, media interviews, radio ads, bulk e-mails, house parties, debates, voter IDs, polls, and, of course, spin, message discipline and damage control. Are you jaded yet?
Campaigns are notoriously absent of substance. Candidates from both parties rely on highly scripted talking points to deliver messages of tax cuts, universal healthcare, gun rights, social justice; whatever the polls reveal is the topic of the hour. As voters, we support candidates best prepared to handle issues important to us. Unfortunately, there isn’t enough time to put the pieces of a campaign puzzle together to learn how our candidates will address those issues. Sometimes, there isn’t even time to figure out just what questions to ask.
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