A 'He Said, She Said' Type of Election

Am I the only one that is getting tired of the ins and outs, ups and downs, and arounds of this year's presidential election? What ever happened to honesty, fair competition, and integrity...you know, the types of attributes upon which this country stives to build itself on? For me, watching all that goes along with this election has caused me to have less faith and belief in those attributes than ever before. Specifically concerning the most recent debate on October 3rd, as I listened and looked into the faces of the two candidates I felt a sense of unrest and discomfort, which by the way, are not feelings that you want to have while listening to what your future President is saying he will do for you and your country. I don't know what it is exactly, maybe there is just too much media attention and publicity about each candidate's every move for there to ever be a single, positive story about them. Every time you look in the news or view a commercial about the election, it is so negatively focused and the entire purpose of the information is to find what is wrong with what each candidate does or says, not about the good. I find this very tiring; tiring to the point that I am slowly giving up interest in watching the election's coverage. The debate on October 3rd was immediately followed by the "fact-checking" show where people have tirelessly checked every single fact about what the candidates said and then tell the public about every little mispoken word or hole in their debates. While I am a reasonable person and completely understand that these tactics are in the attempts to inform the voting public about the truth behind what is being told to them, but come on, are we ever going to hear anything positive coming from the media?

The campaign commercials are also a bothersome topic for me, so much so that I have come to just instinctively change the channel when one of them comes on. These campaign messages are also littering every media outlet online, most specifically, YouTube. You can no longer simply view a video on YouTube without having to sit through 15 to 30 seconds of a sponsored campaign ad. And these ads are more times than not devoted to lack of integrity of the opposing candidate and about how screwed our country would be if he were elected instead of the one sponsoring the ad. It has turned into a "he said, she said" kind of election process, which can most be comparable to, in my opinion, a group of middle schoolers arguing over who has less acne and who will have the smoothest skin in the future. I believe that these candidates are beginning (and forced) to direct there efforts towards saving their image due to the beating that it takes from the media and the opposing candidate rather then putting those efforts towards running their own race and trying to connect with the American people on an emotional and personal level. I think that this alone is what is taking away from the honesty, integrity, and fairness of the current election process and I, for one, am not a fan of this undeniable truth.