Loosing Ground

There is an old saying in politics.  "He who slings dirt, only looses ground."   I emphasize the word old because it apparently doesn't apply to todays climate.  I may sound crazy, but current research shows that the more negative a politician goes, the better his or her chances are of actually winning.  Worse than that, is that much of the "negative" in advertising literature and commercials doesn't even have to be true or substantiated.  The hard, cold facts are that even if an opponents accusations are challenged, by the time they are refuted or corrected, the damage has been done.  With one day to go until Election Day, I am tired of hearing the radio and tv ads touting all the horrible and disgusting things a candidate for office has done; running that persons name through the mud over and over again and then having the nerve to end the commercials by saying, "that's why that individual is running one of the nastiest campaigns in history."  What?  Telling us nasty things about a person and then claiming that very person is himself running a nasty campaign. How twisted is that?  And are we the electorate buying it? Apparently so.  Why?  Because we are sound bite, catch a comment here and there, disconnected people who do little to study the issues or the candidates, vote my name recognition alone or how someone looks or simply party line or in many cases, not show up at the polls at all.  And then we complain over and over again about what we get.   It's not the nasty politician loosing ground. We, the people are the ones loosing ground because we are digging our own graves.