By Leah Bowness
Staff Writer
The elections. To teenagers, it’s just a bunch of bad commercials popping up everywhere. However, the commercials can make the campaigning more fun and interesting for us teens.
Today is election day, November 2nd, where the hilarious campaign ads will be played just one more time. This year the targets are the candidates for Massachusetts governor going up for election or re-election. When asked about the candidates, many students recited the advertisements that have been playing everywhere in the past couple weeks.
The candidates are Deval Patrick [our current governor], Charlie Baker, and Christy Mihos. What have the ads told us about Patrick? That he will raise taxes. The ad most known is the one that has been recently broadcasted on our local radio stations.
The advertisement sets up various situations and tells us that Baker will do something great for our state’s community, while Patrick will just raise taxes. Although this ad is unrealistic and obviously a ridiculously negative outlook on Patrick, the repetition within the ad makes it easy to remember.
Without all of these advertisements, many teens wouldn’t even know that he tends to raise taxes whatsoever.
Besides, it’s entertaining to make fun of the political ads.
What will Deval do? Raise taxes!
Another advertisement airing talks about a more serious subject in Jeff Perry’s past; he was a police chief and while on duty, officers hand searched some younger girls.
Following this event he resigned from his duties. This ad that tells this story of his “hidden past” is not funny, but it gives the teens an unforgettable image of who Jeff Perry has been in the past.
Mihos has lacked in advertisements in comparison to her rival candidates, and as a result many students don’t know who she is at all.
The ads are not a bad thing, although they can be incredibly nasty and negative. In a way they are bringing more attention to the election than anything else has.
Here at Westford Academy the mock elections results tell us that the student body thinks Deval Patrick should be re-elected as our governor, despite his notorious tax raise.