You know, if all these politicians spent more time coming up with policies and striving to meet them rather than spending money criticising their opponents, I may have more respect for them. On watching the news last night I saw that a woman (in Chicago, perhaps?) who lost her legs in Iraq was running on behalf of the Democrats in what was a majorly Republican area. Even more so since the Republicans redrew up the boundaries so that it included pro-Republican areas and excluded those in favour of the Democrats. The majorty of people interviewed said they were Republican but were switching to Democrat because of the war in Iraq.
Opinion polls were putting the woman head to head with the Republican for the first time, perhaps ever. I don't know much about her but I wonder if her campaign is purely based upon her image (i.e. two false legs) rather than any political nous. But her rivals were spending most of their time, it seemed, creating late night TV adverts disparaging her rather than having anything positive to say about themselves.