Like the title of the post says, we’re allegedly in the home stretch before the most consequential presidential election in US history. But no one seems to be seriously campaigning or focusing on it. Virtually no ads (compared to previous years), the Democrats seem to not be campaigning, nor is the GOP (apart from a few Trump rallies), the media seems to not really care, and there are only preliminary discussions on possibly holding debates or town halls. It really seems, based on everyone’s actions, that they all know that there won’t be an election this year. Or at least a conventional one. On top of that they’re so busy with other things that they can’t even be bothered to go through the motions of pretending to care about campaigning for an election.
Just wondering what you guys are thinking about this.
Political ads should definitely be in full force. In years past, they would have started a year before the election and by now I would be rolling my eyes at them everywhere. I should be seeing them in my mailbox, email, all over social media... And I don't really see them this year. Thought it might be just me.
They don't have the money and trump doesn't need to spend it. His numbers continue to go up.
I’m Canadian, but watch enough US TV to see that it’s nowhere like past years. By this point I would be absolutely sick of seeing them and the airwaves would be fully saturated with candidate ads, attack ads, and ads for voting on proposition so-and-so.
Definitely not just you. Although some people here are saying they’re seeing a lot of local candidate ads.