Perhaps if enough people emailed the political machines that drive this advertising madness, with links to threads such as this one, and suggesting "negative advertising," the bright camaign managers out there might be persuaded to advise their workers to tune it down some. But I fear that some statistic will show that there is more to be gained by saturation exposure than lost by overdoing it.
The only other ways to do something would be to lean on current office holders to put pressure on the campaigns. I'd like to see such an official word go out, saying: "Make your signs comply with law, or the town will pull down all offending signs and send the campaign the bill for doing so." But then current office holders may well be running again and don't want to set a precedent. Ah.
Then I guess it would be up to those of us who don't want to see sign saturation to do some midnight enforcement. How likely is that to happen?
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