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Our Views: Are you better off? Empty pockets mean votes
State races are following an old strategy: Milk bad economic news to sway voters
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If this year’s political ads sound like you’ve tapped into Nick at Nite reruns of old campaigns, you’re not imagining it. That’s because there’s little new in politics; it only seems that way sometimes when candidates repackage old ideas. If you’re facing an incumbent, the usual strategy is this: Everything bad that’s happened in the last (two, four, six) years is his or her fault, and everything good is either ignored or someone else’s doing.
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Editorial: Why should we vote? Consider the alternatives
There are plenty of reasons to skip local election, but only if we dont care what chosen leaders do
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There’s an election this Tuesday, if you weren’t aware. Your local media outlets have done their part to beat the drum and stir up interest, and certainly the candidates want you tuned in as well. Yet it is admittedly hard to get folks jazzed up over an off-year election for city council and school board races and a tax referendum.
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