A Political Season

In Thursday's Child, the companion blog to this one, I've posted a few thoughts about yesterday's election and the genesis of my obsession with staying up late for election returns. The link to Thursday's Child is to the right, below my profile.

On additional note: I wonder if finally the fascination of political campaign planners with the negative ad will wane. It seems to me we have hit new lows in willingness to attack the other person's age, gender, religion, financial status and family members instead of vigorously critiquing a candidate's public record of accomplishments or lack thereof. We received calls that all but threatened the apocalypse if the candidate who "was wrong" for Missouri and "didn't share our values" was elected. We also received calls that warned of a complete dissolution of American democracy if the other candidate won. None of these claims were true, and all of them had one basic appeal: fear. Maybe if anything has been learned through this process, it is that the age of selling fear is over. One can only hope.