You Can't Handle the Facts!

This is a pretty simple topic for me personally.  I don't fully understand politics but it reminds me of high school.  From what I gathered from the assigned reading is that you try and find out all of the "bad" things that your opponent has done, will do, or even thought about doing.  It's basically high school drama.  Girls/guys will try and find out everything they can about someone else and spread as many rumors as they can about that person.  While the "outsiders" are tyring to put together the facts about the first rumor, there are already seven more going around.  I may be way off on this, or dead on, but it seems to me like with elections, the candidate will try and find out everything they can about their opponent.  While the candidate/opponent has many more people working for him/her that is more qualified than a bunch of high schoolers, they try and sort out the truths.  But for us we get so lost with everything that happens, we don't know what to believe, and before we can figure out what's going on, something else has happened that all we can remember is that one of the candidates looks extremely bad among the voters. 

As far as the causes and solutions go, well it seems to me that whoever can come up with the most wrongs the other person has done, will have the advantage in the election.  Sometimes I believe this can backfire.  My wife and I, well I should say my wife watches the show Scandal, it's a political based series that is about political wrongdoings.  There are specifically hired people to get elected officials, upcoming candidates out of messes that could hurt their appearance in the voter's eyes.  I believe this isn't too far from what happens in todays politics.  It's a shame that our elected officials "battle" it out like this, but I guess whoever wins, wins.