Wed 9 Jul 2008
By now the following should be common knowledge: I don’t vote for philosphical reasons, and just because something shows up in the ad bar does not mean I support it. That aside, I’ve noticed something odd in the Google advertizing. Once in awhile it’ll spit out a presidential campaign ad, but (at least on my end) thus far it has ALWAYS been a McCain ad. Why, I have no idea.
To the regular visitors: Has anyone seen it bring up any others, whether for Obama, Barr, or anyone else that’s running?
July 9th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
nope, just McCain on my end as well…
July 10th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Dunno if it goes by keywords or if it’s just whoever buys ads for certain classes of sites or what, but that is a surprise. Maybe it’s just a matter of someone who sucks at finding their target market.
I mean, even though I decline to vote you could still say there’s a difference in attitude. While I find Obama to be a typical mainstream liberal squish unfairly pumped up as if he’s a one-man revolution, & see Barr as a candidate of terrible timing, a last gasp at a fusionism that never worked and has to be abandoned for any meaningful progress to be possible, at least neither of them are observably batshit crazy.
October 8th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
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