Are you as glad as I am that the myriad TV ads for the various candidates has ended? Spoiled my morning coffee time over the past month (and longer) and deciding who is good and who is bad (seemed like they all were both!) made me not want to vote on Tuesday – but I did.

I know candidates have to get their face and message out there to voters, but I think spending money on newspaper ads, with much more information on their ideas and plans, would be more effective and less expensive. I don’t know how much TV ads are, but I would think they charge more than newspapers.

Some of the ads were comical, some were angry, some were cute – but besides promises to fix the economy, shake up Augusta or Washington, D.C., help the downtrodden, etc. – the ways in which those ideas would be accomplished never came across to me. Maybe I didn’t listen closely enough because there were so many candidates’ ads, but I don’t think so.

Getting information on the candidates’ websites helped me decide who to vote for, but it took longer than listening to those 30-second TV ads. Hope you did the same.

Now I can enjoy my morning coffee before going to work.