Swing voters for fun and terror, Mark Morford

Mitt Romney and his allies are […] hoping that burying President Obama in ads will give them a crucial edge on Election Day. Ad purchases in the presidential race doubled or in some cases tripled last week in swing states such as Colorado, Florida, Iowa and Virginia. -Washington Post

Woe to you, Colorado. Yes, Virginia, there is a wee bit of sympathy for your current woebegone plight. Terribly sorry, Florida, for your ineffable suffering, though given how pretty much everyone in the developed and reasonable portions of our fine nation is grateful they don’t live anywhere near the sweaty tongue of America that is you, that’s sort of redundant.

But still, it must be said: How sweet it mostly is to live here in California right about now. Not merely for the weather, or the insane food, or the coast, or the culture, the variety, the nature, the beaches or the sushi or the music or the trees or any of the other usual suspects of wonky and dead-broke fabulousness the West side is so rightly praised/bejealoused over.

No, the source of our delight at this moment is our utter and glorious lack of soul-mauling political ads, the deeply gratifying non-existence of Romney and Obama pummeling all common senses into submission via billboards, TV, radio, skywriting and knocking on the goddamn front door every five minutes as they try with all their millions to sway that most bizarre of American creature, that most disturbing cultural substrata, that ideological cartoon character known as the “swing voter.”

Read the rest: http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2012/10/16/swing-voters/