In my home state, our election year will be spread out over 12 whole months due to our recalling the Governor and other state officials. Combined with the local and national elections we have intense coverage of candidates everyday during this period. Who is profiting from such coverage? Also, what are the implications for citizens that may benefit from such elections? What about employment solutions that are a hot issue for most of the candidates?
In my opinion, those who profit from elections include ad agencies, commercial printers, caterers, transportation companies, phone companies, radio/tv stations, commercial meeting and office space, etc. In this list, I wonder how many long term unemployed people profit from this industry. As I stated before, jobs are a very hot issue on the minds of many people without one, but do these politicians change the statistics? One thing that I forgot to mention is that for any candidate presently without work, winning his or her seat quickly solves their jobless dilemma. The rest of us are out of luck without our own campaigns so that we can have a job, too.
