Watching this political season unfold has been both interesting and maddening. Never under the illusion that politicians were any more moral or righteous creatures than the rest of us, it wasn’t hard to accept the deficiencies inherent in each candidate. I’ve also never felt that I should cast a ‘protest’ vote just because there was no candidate that spoke to my issues. That always seemed to be an ineffectual way of protesting the main political parties and their delirious run to the center. Governor Jesse Ventura said that the best thing to do to measure political activity would be to offer a ‘none of the above’ option in the voting booth. Doing so would encourage full participation and force the major parties to try a little harder than just the avoidance of pissing people off.

All that said…with questions surrounding the honesty surrounding both John McCain’s most utilized POW story and Barack Obama’s history with Chicago politics and money, it leaves the whole idea of personality politics seeming pretty silly.

Without a candidate’s character to go on, all that is left are the issues. As close as they are on so many large issues, I think that there is a clear advantage with regard to the economy, the environment, and as crazy as this is…science - when you look at the Obama campaign.