In the past month I've spent some time in the political blogosphere. That's new to me. Not because I'm computer illiterate, simply because I prefer spending more time elsewhere. Like many novices, it became almost addictive. And because it's always on, like infomercials, my sleep time completely turned upside down.
It seemed as if this was a place representative of the people that supported my candidate and the ones trying to prevent the election of that person. To my surprise, I too often found passion for each candidate displayed in words that were truly hateful. Words were written that would never be said face to face. "You're guy isn't fit crawl". "You're woman is an idiot". There's so much anger being being vented that what began as a competition turned into a life or death struggle for too many people on here. Is it any wonder why almost 20% of each candidate's followers said they'd never vote for the other person in the race?
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