An Election Year Suggestion from Me

Can I please make a suggestion regarding this year's election?  Don't wait until late October to decide who you are going to vote for: decide NOW.  You have all of the information you need regarding the candidates for office, at least on the presidential, gubernatorial, senatorial, and congressional levels.  Even in those races that haven't yet held primaries for their parties' candidates in the general election, you can decide on your favorites (and "contingency" favorites should your first choice lose in a primary).  Why do I make this suggestion?

Each time that something comes out in the media about any candidate, either positively or negatively, the contending parties will go to work fabricating spins that seek to either negate the negative news about their own candidate by showing the opponent in a similarly negative light, or if it is positive news about the opponent, to find a source, ANY source (credible or not), that would cast some doubt on the veracity of the positive news.  Frankly, I am weary of this manipulation, regardless of the source or target. And it's just going to get worse..

I am not telling you to vote for Obama, Romney, or another candidate: each of us has our own compelling and legitimate reasons to hold onto our own personal political views and express them on the ballot.  Just don't wait until you are completely inundated: the media "junk" which is already churning out and which will only intensify in the coming months won't help you anyway in making a rational decision.  You already have all of the information you need.  Go ahead now, research the various races that affect you where you happen to live, and write down your choices.  And then stick with them in November!